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Article: Mixed emotions.
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Pina Bausch spent three years in New York, from 1959 to 1962. She studied at the Juilliard School with Antony Tudor and danced with, among others, Paul Sanasardo and Paul Taylor. But before that she trained at Kurt Jooss' Fulkwang School in Essen, where she subsequently taught, and since her return to her native Germany she has been the quintessential German dance artist. Which accounts for much of her strength (the rest can be chalked up to individual genius) and part of the problems some American dance critics have had with her work.
As a choreographer, which she has been since 1968, Bausch has been an unabashed exponent of Tanztheater, of dance theater, first ...