Carnations pina bausch biography

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Revisiting Pina Bausch: ‘Carnations’

Pina Bausch Dance Theater Wuppertal, Germany October 17.

By ORA BRAFMAN

It starts with a huge field of knee-high pink carnations on stage and ends with 2,000 downtrodden flowers.Watching the work almost four decades after it premiered, it feels uneasy to read Carnations (Nelken) as a metaphor to what we’ve become, living with wrongs and violence as we shrug.Bausch’s Carnations was often considered an homage to spring and hope. In hindsight, though, the spectacular blooming field being guarded by barely contained watchdogs stands out today as beyond dramatic caprice.Pina Bausch was certainly one the more influential choreographers in the second half of the 20th century, developing a new expressionist dance theater that eventually helped to shutter modern dance’s traditional structures, opting to replace it with layered short scenes with flimsy ties.Once she gave up linear dramatic build-up, as she did in one of her earliest works such as The Rite of Spring, she found freedom in carving emotional materials from herself and her dancers’ innards and turned them into impressive enigmatic offerings and visual and emotional suggestive riddles. While she supplied endless stimulations, the viewers nee

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Pina Bausch

German person and choreographer

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Early insect and education

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Pina Bausch seen by Ursula Kaufmann
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Ursula Kaufmann

Born in Essen in 1945 and trained as a business clerk, she discovered her love for theatre and photography as a teenager. But it wasn’t until 1984 that the striking blonde with a classic ballerina’s tight topknot combined both passions in a career. She had a big dream: “Just once I want to be able to photograph Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal!” Ever since she saw Bausch’s choreography of The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps to the music of Igor Stravinsky) in 1975, the powerful imagery, multifaceted original movements and the charismatic individuality of the dancers never let her go. “I love these Wuppertal dancers. You never forget their expressive faces,” raves the internationally long-renowned photographic artist.

Ursula Kaufmann |© Ursula KaufmannShe is in demand from the Ruhrtriennale to the Salzburg Festival and the Opéra Nationale de Paris. Her photos of productions from all branches of the theatre are printed in the world’s biggest newspapers, including Le Monde, El Pais and The New York Times. Solo and group exhibitions in Germany and around the world – for example in Kyoto, Casablanca, Istanbul and New York – document the many contemporary chor