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dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (Solingen, July 27, 1940) died today at age 68, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. "He was up on the same Sunday on stage with her dance company," said Ursula Popp, spokeswoman Wuppertal Opera House, where Bausch was a resident choreographer.
consecrated as one of the key figures of contemporary dance of the twentieth century, its influence over three generations of choreographers from around the world testifies to the uniqueness of his talent. In fact, it is considered as the axis of the crystallization of the so-called dance theater (or dance theater, according to other definitions), a way of conceiving the show from an optical complex, open and non-linear.
Since the late seventies filed as resident choreographer of the Wuppertal Opera, the company that gathers around it nurtured by dancers from various disciplines and from all over the world. One of its original members and still remained at his side, is the Madrid Nazareth Panadero. Philippines
Bausch began her training in 1955 in Essen Folkwangschule (institution which always remained tied) with Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder. When he graduated in 1959 won the first award granted to a German dancer to go to the Julliard School in New York, where the company became Paul Sanasardo. Another American stage next to his was Paul Taylor, who debuted in 1961 Ballet Tablet. At the time New Yorker Bausch find the basis of its style and its creative, his passion for old opera of his time in the Metropolitan Opera and that experience will be born today devoted repertory pieces worldwide as Iphigenia in Tauris, or Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck both). Her Rite of Spring became part of the repertoire of the Paris Opera and its short Café Müller (1978) was filmed with his unique dance hieratic. Last week was scheduled landing of the company in the Spoleto Festival with a revival of one of his last choral works: Bamboo.
His last visit to Madrid, went first to the Teatro de la Zarzuela in 2006 and then in 2008 the New Theatre of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Pina Bausch was scheduled to open next Autumn Festival in Madrid on November 4 with the Kontakthof (1978).
Taken from Diario El Pais. ROGER SALAS - Madrid - 30/06/2009
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