Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Pina Bausch Dies at 68

NY Times: Pina Bausch, the choreographer and exponent of the Neo-Expressionist form of German dance known as Tanztheater, died Tuesday in Wuppertal. She was 68.

The Wuppertal Dance Theater in western Germany, where she had served as director, announced the death. It did not give the cause, but said Ms. Bausch’s "unexpectedly fast" death came five days after a cancer diagnosis, the Associated Press reported.


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1 comment:

Sikantis said...

Pina Bausch deserves esteem for her life and work.

 
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