{"id":678,"date":"2009-06-30T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/pina-bausch-dies-at-68.html"},"modified":"2009-06-30T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:11:51","slug":"pina-bausch-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/pina-bausch-dies-at-68.html","title":{"rendered":"Pina Bausch dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reflector.com\/features\/german-choreographer-pina-bausch-dies-691049.html\">Pina Bausch died Tuesday<\/a>, five short days&nbsp;following her cancer diagnosis. German choreographer bad-ass, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pina_Bausch\">founder of the groundbreaking company Tanztheater,<\/a> and one the most beloved dance innovators of my generation, Pina Bausch&#8217;s death is a shock. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KXVuVQuMvgA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although best known to the general non-danceaphila audience by Pedro Almadovar&#8217;s&nbsp;use&nbsp;of her work&nbsp;in the beautiful film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNdzcTZUW54\">Talk To Her<\/a><\/em>, for any dance lover and for anyone in the dance theater community, attending the next Pina Bausch show (for us New Yorkers, at BAM) was a ritual (and scene) not to&nbsp;be missed.&nbsp; Even after her style became so parroted that it lost some of&nbsp;its freshness, there was a singularly raw, sexy, beautiful, quirky, and exhuberant energy to her shows.&nbsp; She stretched her gorgeous dancers out on rocks and blanketed them with floral projections then had them recreate a 1930&#8217;s barbershop which got interrupted by an enormous whale flopping on stage.&nbsp; It was all dance, and it all made sense in a way that you could only shake your head admiringly at, and, of course,&nbsp;leap to your feet when she came out, dressed in military boots, fishnets&nbsp;and multi-colored hair to take her choreographer bow. <\/p>\n<p>All art forms are noble and dharmic in their own way, but there is something particularly about dance that is so non-verbally resonant that I view choreographers as patron Buddhist saints. (If there were such a thing).&nbsp; The level of expression that a body moving can evoke is so often beyond language, and the &#8220;listening&#8221; that the audience does when watching dance is profound.&nbsp; Although more heavily supported in Europe, there is little chance that a dancer or choreographer will every become rich or more than niche famous.&nbsp; More than any type of artist, their primary motivation to make work is simply to create those moments of synesthetic connectivity, of wordless communion, and to create&nbsp;gut-level reminders of our shared humanity. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you Pina, for giving me so many of those&nbsp;memorable reminders over my adult years.&nbsp; You will be missed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pina Bausch died Tuesday, five short days&nbsp;following her cancer diagnosis. 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