Pina Bausch Research Paper
MANDISA MGUNI-2F
Pina Bausch
Philippina Bausch (better known as Pina Bausch) was a German performer in the style of modern dance, a ballet director, dance teacher and choreographer born on the 27th July 1940 in Solingen. At the age of 15, she was accepted into Folkwangschule (Folkwang Academy). Pina has created a company called Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch which performs all around the world. She was married to Rolf Borzik from the Netherlands who was a costume designer that unfortunately died from leukaemia in 1980. The following year she met Ronald Kay and had a child with him called Ralf-Salamon. Unfortunately, on the 30th June 2009 from lung cancer due to excessive smoking.
Bausch was a choreographer in modern dance and has won 4 awards for her past pieces, such as the Goethe Prize the year before her death. One of her well known pieces is Wicked Fairy which has a lot of strong responses. Her drive for success and determination has inspired many other known performers like David Bowie. Fritz (1973), Adagio (1974) and Arien (1979) were …show more content…
just a few of her very successful dances. The promotional trailers from the famous television series American Horror story were likely to have had one of their clips inspired by Pina’s work Bausch.
Ever since Pina was a little child, dance has impacted her life in such an extraordinary way. Throughout her lifetime, she has committed to her passion like studying in New York’s Julliard School I 1960 after graduation in 1959, when she left Germany to go to the United States. Ongoing themes in her choreographed performances are; rejection, self-identification, loneliness and struggle. On the other hand, some of her more cheerful themes are humoral, hope and tenderness which are often underrated. A few of her later pieces for example Nur Du and Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer) have such a cheerful mood and atmosphere.
The type of performer, teacher and choreographer style and method Pina had was very one sided.
Either you hate her way of doing things or you appreciate it. Not everyone thought her style was as amazing as it was made out to be for example her choreographed performance; As mentioned above, Philippina was a ballet dancer from her adolescent years and the style of Modern Dance derives from ballet which is most likely what inspired her to choreography and teach this dance style.
Despite her tragic death in 2009, Pina will always have a strong legacy in dramatic physical theatre and as she once said herself; “When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it choreographing but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else – the music, the set, the movement and whatever is
said”
Reference List
1.) Mimi Tashiro (Stanford University). 1999. prelectur.stanford.edu. [ONLINE] Available at: https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bausch/life.html. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
2.) BrainyQuote. 2001. BrainyQuote. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pina_bausch.html. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
3.) dance.about.com. 2016. dance.about.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://dance.about.com/od/solodancestyles/p/Modern_Dance.htm. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
4.) Wikipedia.org. 2016. Wikipedia.org. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
Pina Bausch
Philippina Bausch (better known as Pina Bausch) was a German performer in the style of modern dance, a ballet director, dance teacher and choreographer born on the 27th July 1940 in Solingen. At the age of 15, she was accepted into Folkwangschule (Folkwang Academy). Pina has created a company called Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch which performs all around the world. She was married to Rolf Borzik from the Netherlands who was a costume designer that unfortunately died from leukaemia in 1980. The following year she met Ronald Kay and had a child with him called Ralf-Salamon. Unfortunately, on the 30th June 2009 from lung cancer due to excessive smoking.
Bausch was a choreographer in modern dance and has won 4 awards for her past pieces, such as the Goethe Prize the year before her death. One of her well known pieces is Wicked Fairy which has a lot of strong responses. Her drive for success and determination has inspired many other known performers like David Bowie. Fritz (1973), Adagio (1974) and Arien (1979) were …show more content…
just a few of her very successful dances. The promotional trailers from the famous television series American Horror story were likely to have had one of their clips inspired by Pina’s work Bausch.
Ever since Pina was a little child, dance has impacted her life in such an extraordinary way. Throughout her lifetime, she has committed to her passion like studying in New York’s Julliard School I 1960 after graduation in 1959, when she left Germany to go to the United States. Ongoing themes in her choreographed performances are; rejection, self-identification, loneliness and struggle. On the other hand, some of her more cheerful themes are humoral, hope and tenderness which are often underrated. A few of her later pieces for example Nur Du and Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer) have such a cheerful mood and atmosphere.
The type of performer, teacher and choreographer style and method Pina had was very one sided.
Either you hate her way of doing things or you appreciate it. Not everyone thought her style was as amazing as it was made out to be for example her choreographed performance; As mentioned above, Philippina was a ballet dancer from her adolescent years and the style of Modern Dance derives from ballet which is most likely what inspired her to choreography and teach this dance style.
Despite her tragic death in 2009, Pina will always have a strong legacy in dramatic physical theatre and as she once said herself; “When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it choreographing but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else – the music, the set, the movement and whatever is
said”
Reference List
1.) Mimi Tashiro (Stanford University). 1999. prelectur.stanford.edu. [ONLINE] Available at: https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bausch/life.html. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
2.) BrainyQuote. 2001. BrainyQuote. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pina_bausch.html. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
3.) dance.about.com. 2016. dance.about.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://dance.about.com/od/solodancestyles/p/Modern_Dance.htm. [Accessed 21 May 2016].
4.) Wikipedia.org. 2016. Wikipedia.org. [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pina_Bausch. [Accessed 21 May 2016].