German choreographer Pina Bausch has died, five days after being diagnosed with cancer.
Bausch was the director of Tanztheater Wuppertal and gained international reknown for her creative redefinition of dance, through bringing an outstandingly avant-garde aesthetic to contemporary ballet. She transformed the language of choreography, and often intrigued the senses with a highly idiosyncratic, stylistic melange of inventive sets, eclectic music and fragmented narratives. Her choregraphic structures were repetitive and haunting, with undertones of violence. She collaborated with film directors Frederic Fellini, Wim Wenders and Pedro Almodovar, whose film Hable con Ella gave wide exposure to her lucid, melancholy work.
Café Muller (used in Hable con Ella):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtqrqjERhkQ
Le Sacre du printemps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVuVQuMvgA
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