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Pina Bausch
Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's approach was noted for a stylised blend of dance movement, prominent sound design, and involved stage sets, as well as for engaging the dancers under her to help in the development of a piece, and her work had an influence on modern dance from the 1970s forward. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal, which performs internationally.
Philippine Bausch, later known as Pina, was born in Solingen, Germany, on 27 July 1940. Her parents were August and Anita Bausch, who owned a restaurant with guest rooms, where Pina was born. The restaurant provided Pina with a venue to start performing at a very young age. She would perform for all of the guests in the hotel and occasionally go into their rooms and dance while they were trying to read the newspaper. It was then that her parents saw her potential. These experiences at the restaurant would be a great influence for her choreography of Café Müller.[citation needed]
In 1955, Bausch was accepted into Kurt Jooss's Folkwangschule in Essen.
After graduation in 1959, Bausch left Germany with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to continue her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1960, where her teachers included Antony Tudor, José Limón, Alfredo Corvino, and Paul Taylor.
Bausch was very soon performing with Tudor at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and with Paul Taylor at New American Ballet. When, in 1960, Taylor was invited to premiere a new work named Tablet in Spoleto, Italy, he took Bausch with him. In New York Bausch also performed with the Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer Dance Company and collaborated on two pieces with them in 1961.
In 1962, Bausch returned to Essen to join Jooss' new Folkwang-Ballett (Folkwang Ballet), as a soloist and assistant to Jooss. In 1968, she choreographed her first piece, Fragmente (Fragments), to music by Béla Bartók. In 1969, she succeeded Jooss as artistic director of the company.
Her 1968 piece for the Folkwang Ballet, Im Wind der Zeit, took first place for choreography in a competition at the International Summer Academy of Dance in Cologne in 1969. She continued to collaborate with the Sanasardo Company, showing some of her choreography in the United States, through which she met Dominique Mercy and Malou Airaudo, who would become founding members of her company.
Bausch was hired by Arno Wüstenhöfer, director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen, Wuppertal's municipal performing arts organization, to run the Opernhaus Wuppertal ballet beginning with the 1973/74 season. Bausch was given artistic autonomy, ran the company independently and renamed it the Tanztheater Wuppertal. The company has a large repertoire of original pieces, and regularly tours throughout the world from its home base of the Opernhaus Wuppertal. The company has continued since Bausch's death, touring her repertoire and new choreography.
Pina Bausch
Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater. Bausch's approach was noted for a stylised blend of dance movement, prominent sound design, and involved stage sets, as well as for engaging the dancers under her to help in the development of a piece, and her work had an influence on modern dance from the 1970s forward. She created the company Tanztheater Wuppertal, which performs internationally.
Philippine Bausch, later known as Pina, was born in Solingen, Germany, on 27 July 1940. Her parents were August and Anita Bausch, who owned a restaurant with guest rooms, where Pina was born. The restaurant provided Pina with a venue to start performing at a very young age. She would perform for all of the guests in the hotel and occasionally go into their rooms and dance while they were trying to read the newspaper. It was then that her parents saw her potential. These experiences at the restaurant would be a great influence for her choreography of Café Müller.[citation needed]
In 1955, Bausch was accepted into Kurt Jooss's Folkwangschule in Essen.
After graduation in 1959, Bausch left Germany with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service to continue her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1960, where her teachers included Antony Tudor, José Limón, Alfredo Corvino, and Paul Taylor.
Bausch was very soon performing with Tudor at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and with Paul Taylor at New American Ballet. When, in 1960, Taylor was invited to premiere a new work named Tablet in Spoleto, Italy, he took Bausch with him. In New York Bausch also performed with the Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer Dance Company and collaborated on two pieces with them in 1961.
In 1962, Bausch returned to Essen to join Jooss' new Folkwang-Ballett (Folkwang Ballet), as a soloist and assistant to Jooss. In 1968, she choreographed her first piece, Fragmente (Fragments), to music by Béla Bartók. In 1969, she succeeded Jooss as artistic director of the company.
Her 1968 piece for the Folkwang Ballet, Im Wind der Zeit, took first place for choreography in a competition at the International Summer Academy of Dance in Cologne in 1969. She continued to collaborate with the Sanasardo Company, showing some of her choreography in the United States, through which she met Dominique Mercy and Malou Airaudo, who would become founding members of her company.
Bausch was hired by Arno Wüstenhöfer, director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen, Wuppertal's municipal performing arts organization, to run the Opernhaus Wuppertal ballet beginning with the 1973/74 season. Bausch was given artistic autonomy, ran the company independently and renamed it the Tanztheater Wuppertal. The company has a large repertoire of original pieces, and regularly tours throughout the world from its home base of the Opernhaus Wuppertal. The company has continued since Bausch's death, touring her repertoire and new choreography.
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