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Pina Bausch Biography (1940-)

Born July 27, 1940, in Solingen, Germany; daughter of a restaurant owner; children: Rolf Salomon. Addresses: Office: Wuppertaler Buehnen, Ballettdirektion, Spinnstrasse 4, 5600 Wuppertal 2, Germany.

Nationality

German

Gender

Female

Occupation

choreographer

Birth Details

July 27, 1940

Solingen, Germany

Famous Works

• Credits; Choreographer; Original Dance Works
• Fritz, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1973.
• Ich bring dich um die Ecke, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1974.
• Adagio/Fuenf Lieder von Gustav Mahler, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1974.
• Fruehlingsopfer, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1975, first produced inthe United States, June, 1984, at the Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles.
• Blaubart--Beim Anhoeren einer Tonbandaufnahme von Bela Bartok's Oper `Herzog Blaubart's Burg', Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1977.
• Komm, tanz mit mir, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1977.
• Kontakhof, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1977.
• Legend of Chastity, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1979.
• Arien, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1979, first produced in the UnitedStates as Arias, October, 1985, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, NewYork City.
• 1980, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1984.
• Cafe Mueller, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1984.
• Also choreographer of Im Winde der Zeit, 1969, Die Klage der Laiserin, 1989, Walzer, Tanzabend: Nelken, Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehort, Er nimmt sie bei der Hand und fuehrt sie in das Schloss; dieanderen folgen, and some two dozen other dance works.
• Credits; Choreographer; Stage Works
• Tannhaeuser, Wuppertal Opera Ballet, 1972.
• Gluck, Iphigenia in Tauris, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1974.
• Gluck, Orpheus and Eurydice, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1974.
• Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Die Sieben Todsunden, Wuppertal Dance Theatre, 1977.
• Brecht and Weill, Fuerchtet Euch nicht!, Wuppertal Dance Theatre,1977.
• Credits; Film Appearances
• Grand duchess, And the Ship Sails On, Triumph, 1984.
• Also appeared in On Tour with Pina Bausch, 1983.

Further Reference

Periodicals

• New York Times, October 4, 1985.
• People, October 14, 1985.