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Pina Bausch 1940-2009

by | 1:45 pm | Jun 30, 2009

The choreographer and opera director died earlier today. She was 68. 

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  • Harry says:

    Dying just five days after being diagnosed with cancer..strange?

    on June 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM
  • cosmodimontevergine says:

    It can truly be said of Pina Bausch that she was unique. Sad to think of a world without her.

    on June 30, 2009 at 3:43 PM
  • Often admonished says:

    She had a LOT more work to do! sad.

    With Strehler and Wilson, she’s been the major influence on theatre in Germany for the last 20 years.

    on June 30, 2009 at 4:31 PM
  • brooklynpunk says:

    REST IN PEACE, PINA…

    (Although I gotta confess the stuff her Dance Company used to perform, at The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), was not ..for the most pasrt..my cuppa..and someone I am very close to, who was Stage Manager at BAM said that Pina was a “holy terror ” to work with/for,,..she was surely..an Original..and will be missed, warts and all..

    And Harry…NO…it is NOT all the uncommon to be diagnosed with..and die from, Cancer, in a matter of a number of days….(depending on the type, and how much it had spread before detection..)

    on June 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM
  • Drammy says:

    :( All the celebs dying recently…

    on June 30, 2009 at 9:46 PM
  • Condanna O Screater says:

    Some celebs don’t need to proclaim themselves king or queen of anything though, they simply rule.

    on June 30, 2009 at 10:05 PM
  • Lydia Language says:

    I remember her Bluebeard’s Castle at BAM, what was it, 20 years ago? GODAWFUL SHIT! My date walked out after fifteen minutes, I joined him after ten more, we then walked all the way home to Manhattan in fury. I wanted to kick her around the block, saying, “If you hate Bartok so much, don’t do the piece!” If I saw that work today … well, I wouldn’t buy tickets to it, and if stuck there would go to the BAMRose next door instead.

    Ah, genius!

    I still think a great deal of regietheater gets all its energy from the hostility of mediocre moderns to the glorious artists of the past.

    on July 1, 2009 at 2:56 PM
  • cosmodimontevergine says:

    Anna Kisselgoff on the Pina Bausch Bluebeard that Lydia Language describes with such flare: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/16/arts/dance-a-bluebeard-by-pina-bausch-troupe.html?&pagewanted=2.

    If I may re-phrase #8 a little. Pina Bausch was a glorious modern who confronted the hostility of mediocre artists of the past.

    on July 1, 2009 at 6:21 PM
  • Harry says:

    Lydia Language (8#);Well said. I remember a promising choreographer who went off and ‘trained further’ under Pina Bausch. The person then lauded how Bausch taught them to “dig organically deep into the ground rather that aspire to the sky, and flight”. Those were the classic words, they used. We saw the result. I think the choreographer then hit the silly shit pipe on the way down excavating ‘for that new found Bullsch#t -like inspiration’, after that.

    on July 2, 2009 at 1:24 AM
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