Philippine "Pina" Bausch (July 27, 1940 – June 30, 2009) was a German modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance.
Bausch was born in Solingen, near Düsseldorf, the third and youngest child of August and Anita Bausch, who owned a café attached to a small hotel. Bausch began dancing from a young age. In 1955 she entered the Folkwang Academy in Essen then directed by Germany's most influen...
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Philippine "Pina" Bausch (July 27, 1940 – June 30, 2009) was a German modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance.
Bausch was born in Solingen, near Düsseldorf, the third and youngest child of August and Anita Bausch, who owned a café attached to a small hotel. Bausch began dancing from a young age. In 1955 she entered the Folkwang Academy in Essen then directed by Germany's most influential choreographer Kurt Jooss, one of the founders of German Expressionist dance.
After graduation, she won a scholarship to continue her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1960, where her teachers included Anthony Tudor, José Limón, and Paul Taylor. In New York she performed with the Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer Dance Company, the New American Ballet and became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company.
In 1962, Bausch joined Jooss' new Folkwang Ballett Company as a soloist and assisted Jooss on many of the pieces,...
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