Dance

In June 2009 Germany’s best known choreographer Pina Bausch has died of cancer, aged just 68. Since 1973 Pina Bausch achieved world wide reputation with the Tanztheater Wuppertal.More ...

The Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture was founded in Weimar in 1919. It was based in Dessau from 1925 to 1933 until the Nazis forced the closure of the school that had such a major influence on style. Now, 90 years on, the Bauhaus dances are being declared classics.More ...

The internet and digital culture open up new opportunities in connection with cultivating the cultural heritage of dance.More ...

Contemporary choreographers are all fired up about the avant-garde – both yesterday’s and yesteryear’s. With their fingers on the pulse of the time, choreographers are archaeologists who excavate within the seldom tangible sphere of a fleeting art form. In doing so, they raise new questions about their own artistic function. German modern expressionist dance is surfacing. Reconstructions and recreations sit well with modern dance’s notion of hybridity.
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