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Dateline: 30th June, 2009
Pina Bausch (1940 - 2009) German choreographer Pina Bausch, who is credited with revolutionising dance and creatng what we now call dance theatre, died today at the age of 68. She was diagnosed with cancer just five days ago. Born in Solingen (near Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia), at the age of 15 she trained at the Folkwang Academy in Essen, going on to New York's Juilliard School, after which she worked for a time in New York, notably with the New American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company. She returned to Germany in 1962 and in 1972 became artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera Ballet, which later became Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Since then she became famed as a choreographer of originality who, in the words of the director of the Hamburg ballet company, John Neumeier, "continually pushed the boundaries of what we call dance." He influence spread throughout the dance world, having an impact on European, and therefore on British theatre as well as dance. A statement on the Tanztheater Wuppertal website says, "This morning dancer and choreographer of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch died. An unexpected quick death overtook her five days after being diagnosed with cancer. Just the Sunday before last she stood with her company on the stage of the Wuppertal Opera House."
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