Tanztheater Wuppertal, Café Müller (1978), a piece by Pina Bausch with music by Henry Purcell, directed and choreographed by Pina Bausch (all photos by Stephanie Berger and courtesy the Brooklyn ...

Dancing at Dusk — A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (image courtesy polyphem Filmproduktion) In mid-March, as the sun set on a beach in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, 38 dancers gave a ...

Choreographer-led works at the annual German theater event range from the transgressive to the melancholic. By Emily J. May “Kontakthof,” a pivotal Bausch dance from 1978, is being staged with members ...

Wim Wenders’s “Pina” is a beautiful-looking movie, but it is not especially representative of its subject, Pina Bausch and her company, the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Bausch was a practitioner of what the ...

The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...

For the past week, two dances by Pina Bausch, the German choreographer and former director of the Wuppertal Tanztheater, who died in 2009, were performed to sold-out, rapturous crowds at the Brooklyn ...

In an early sequence of **Wim Wenders’**s new 3-D documentary, Pina, on the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, a woman in a long black dress walks trancelike, along an empty sidewalk, as a man ...

Pina Bausch, a German choreographer and dancer whose work transcended traditional barriers between dance and theater, died Tuesday in Wuppertal, Germany, five days after being diagnosed with cancer.

The groundbreaking German dance artist Pina Bausch often said the secret to her success as a choreographer was she "was not interested in how people move, but what moves them." She is credited with ...

In a small German industrial town called Wuppertal, choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers from sixteen countries are turning the chaos of the world into cell-changing art. Famous for ...