Pina Bausch
German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director (1940–2009)
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GermanyShe turned modern dance into theater — raw, repetitive, unsparing — and made audiences watch bodies work through exhaustion and longing on stages filled with water, dirt, carnations. Tanztheater wasn't a style before her; now it's a tradition.
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Philippine Bausch was born in Germany on 27 July 1940 and trained as a dancer before the choreographic work began. In the 1970s she created Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company that became her instrument, and developed a method that pulled her dancers into the creative process — not just performing steps but building the pieces themselves. The work blended movement with prominent sound design and involved stage sets, a stylised neo-expressionist approach that influenced modern dance from that decade forward. The company toured internationally, carrying that vocabulary outward. Bausch died on 30…
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- Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt
- Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg
- Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
- Praemium Imperiale
- Europe Theatre Prize
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