ABOUT PINA BAUSCH
TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE THROUGH DANCE –
PINA BAUSCH BIOGRAPHY
Pina Bausch was born 1940 in Solingen and died 2009 in Wuppertal. She received her dance training at the Folkwang School in Essen under Kurt Jooss, where she achieved technical excellence. Soon after the director of Wuppertal's theatres, Arno Wüstenhöfer, engaged her as choreographer, from autumn 1973, she renamed the ensemble the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Under this name, although controversial at the beginning, the company gradually achieved international recognition. Its combination of poetic and everyday elements influenced the international development of dance decisively. Awarded some of the greatest prizes and honours world-wide, Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of our time.
By Norbert Servos
Translated by Steph Morris
SOURCE: http://www.pinabausch.org/en/pina/biography
QUOTES BY PINA BAUSCH
“I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.” ...
“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.” ...
“There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless.
WHAT I WISH FOR YOU TODAY
To know what moves you.