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[rg]

a colleague here in NYC and one from Spain has just sent word that Pina Bausch has apparently died.
no further details.

[naomikage]

rg, on Jun 30 2009, 11:22 PM, said:

a colleague here in NYC and one from Spain has just sent word that Pina Bausch has apparently died.
no further details.

it is on the company's official site.

http://www.pina-bausch.de/news.htm

http://www.guardian....sch-dies-dancer

a great loss for the dance world and I can't belive it. I  loved hew work, and she was only 68.

[Alexandra]

This is indeed sad news.  I admired her work very much and there's no denying her influence -- it has been enormous.

I had a European cable news program on (Euronews) and they did a very nice brief feature, with several dance clips.  Can you imagine any American TV station doing that?

[bart]

Alisstair Macaulays appraisal is here (NY Times) is here:

http://www.nytimes.c....html?ref=dance

[innopac]

"Wim Wenders has decided to forge ahead with Pina, his 3D dance film about legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died last month."
Here is the link.