Dance

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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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 ...

Susanne Linke is one of the most illustrious exponents of the German dance theatre scene since the 1970s. Her style is about precision: paring it down to the bare essentials. A new book rehearses her childhood, stage career and works.More ...