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It was within this climate that Bausch took over the direction of an opera house in Wuppertal and launched <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her dance company \u2013 the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, in 1973. It is now near impossible to enumerate the plethora of works created in Bausch\u2019s shadow, but here, in her memory, a decade after her death, we revisit what made this vanguard of modern dance so unforgettable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Human emotion was at the epicentre of her oeuvre<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bq7bLHWDIFv\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bausch famously once said, \u201cI am not interested in how people move, but in what moves them.\u201d\u00a0 In rehearsals, Bausch was hands-on, provoking her dancers into movement by asking them to delve into their past experiences. Using psychological prompts such as, &#8220;Show me in movement the memory of the first time you laughed very hard,&#8221; or, \u201cHow do you behave when you\u2019ve lost something?\u201d, she then turned the dancer\u2019s responses into choreography. By rejecting traditional narrative-led choreographic techniques in favour of this ontological approach to storytelling, she was able to capture the complexity of the self.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Her sets and costumes were radical<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78066,"id":78066,"title":"Screen Shot 2019-06-28 at 18.19.28","filename":"Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","filesize":1020878,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/pina-bausch\/screen-shot-2019-06-28-at-18-19-28\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Film still: Nelken, Courtesy of Adelaide Festival of Arts 2016.","name":"screen-shot-2019-06-28-at-18-19-28","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78059,"date":"2019-06-28 16:25:59","modified":"2019-06-28 16:27:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1624,"height":925,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":73,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","medium-width":1624,"medium-height":925,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","medium_large-width":1624,"medium_large-height":925,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","large-width":1624,"large-height":925,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":875,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","2048x2048-width":1624,"2048x2048-height":925,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":10,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-28-at-18.19.28.png","wpvr_mobile-width":1624,"wpvr_mobile-height":925}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As early as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rite of Spring<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1975, Bausch was using original backdrops for her works. For this performance, she had the stage covered with wet soil while dancers pulsated and audibly panted among the dirt. The soil became part of their bodies, peat becoming entangled in their hair and sweat. Later, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nelken<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a dance devised a year after the birth of her son in 1981 \u2013\u00a0 she had the stage carpeted with pink carnations, through which a near-naked woman wanders playing the accordion. It is one of the most sensational, ethereal moments in her repertoire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Controversy never deterred her<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78057,"id":78057,"title":"blaubart 1_\u00a9_Ulli_Weiss","filename":"blaubart-1_\u00a9_Ulli_Weiss.jpg","filesize":513783,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blaubart-1_\u00a9_Ulli_Weiss.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/pina-bausch\/blaubart-1__ulli_weiss\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Blaubart. Photo: Ulli Weiss. 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Indeed, rape was a repeated motif in her work, depicted in full visceral, brutal honesty. Bausch did not shy away from putting other disturbing and humiliating acts on her stage, making some of her work near unwatchable. Rehearsals were equally hard to bear, with dancers occasionally breaking down and crying while practising for the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early days, audiences in Wuppertal, shocked and disgusted at what they were seeing walked out of shows, threw fruit at the dancers and heckled endlessly throughout performances. This was more than compensated for by the legion of supporters of Bausch\u2019s work, notable among them Susan Sontag, Wim Wenders and Helmut Newton.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>She blurred the<\/b><b> borders between dance and theatre<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"instagram","code":"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bx2RVzZDLaj\/","settings":{"width":"10"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Bausch didn\u2019t invent \u2018Tanztheater\u2019 (its roots can be traced to Rudolf von Laban\u2019s choric dance presentations), which translates literally as \u2018dance theatre\u2019, her work certainly rede\ufb01ned it for a new era. Undoubtedly, her training under Kurt Jooss <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 a seminal figure in contemporary dance and an advocate of expressionist choreography \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">played a significant role in this: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a founder of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ausdruckstanz<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (free dance) movement, his teaching combined the elements of dance, music and drama in performance.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1977, Bausch presented her version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bluebeard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she premiered the fractured, dramatic style of her later work. She introduced chaotic speech elements, with the dancers calling out seemingly random phrases, as Bluebeard stomped around a stage strewn with dead leaves. Bit by bit, Bausch perfected her own language on stage \u2013 seamlessly switching from a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pas-de-deux <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(dance duet) to a children\u2019s song to sinking teeth into a juicy orange in the same performance \u2013 until such dramatic elements became synonymous with \u2018Bauschan\u2019 choreography.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>She continually challenged gender roles through dance<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78058,"id":78058,"title":"sacre.ensemble. foto(c) ulli weiss","filename":"sacre.ensemble.-fotoc-ulli-weiss-.jpg","filesize":544955,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sacre.ensemble.-fotoc-ulli-weiss-.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/sacre-ensemble-fotoc-ulli-weiss\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Sacre Ensemble. Photo Ulli Weiss. 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In many of her works the female dancers are hypersexual or overtly vulgar \u2013 a satirical play on the over sexualisation of women in society. By contrast, the male dancers sometimes dress in drag, wearing heels or bikinis. In the comic towel scene in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agua<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, created after a trip to Brazil in 2001, dancers on the beach cover themselves in towels that have bodies pictured on them, transforming the dancers into different people.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compared to classical dance, where men and women were categorised in specific and restrictive stereotypes, Tanztheater provided Bausch with the opportunity to explore a more progressive approach to gender.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How choreographer Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance How choreographer Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/pina-bausch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How choreographer Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance How choreographer Pina Bausch revolutionised modern dance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/pina-bausch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-28T16:46:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-28T16:48:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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