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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For dancer Anique Ayiboe, entering the world of "The Rite of Spring" has been a journey of discovery. The Togolese dancer, who has been traveling and performing the renowned 1975 Pina Bausch piece ...

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 ...

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 ...

The German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch invented a new kind of dance — tanztheater, or dance theater — that made her legendary among her peers. She was also known for her intense, familial ...

German choreographer Pina Bausch is one of the giant figures of modern dance. Critics say her work is bold and visually arresting -- she's choreographed pieces where the stage is covered in dirt or ...