In this essay I will be writing about what devising tools define the work of Pina Bausch, in my introduction I will be introducing Pina Bausch and her background and in my main body of text I will talk about the devising tools that define her work, then finally in my conclusion I will summarise everything I have written about in this essay.
Pina Bausch was born Philippina Bausch in 1940 in Solingen, Germany. Bausch was a modern dance performer, and choreographer. When Pina was 15 she was accepted into the Folkwang Academy, this school was directed one of the pioneers of combining dance and drama into a new kind of theatre called Tanztheatre his name was Kurt Jooss. When Bausch graduated in 1959 she left Germany because she had gotten a scholarship …show more content…
Two years after being in new York Bausch joined Jooss new company called Folkwang Ballett as a soloist and had the liberty of assisting Jooss on many of the pieces that were shown she was so great at this that in 1968 she has the opportunity to choreograph a piece of her own called Fragmente and eventually in 1969 she became the artistic director of the company. Bausch became an artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera ballet and later on it was renamed as the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina …show more content…
Pina Bausch believes that her role is to convey feelings and emotions into dance, now this is why the pieces that are performed have such a meaningful factor towards it and the audience feels the emotions that the performer is showing, this is what Pina wants the audience to feel as if they are going on the journey with the performer. Pina once stated "It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please, we cannot help challenging the spectator." Now with this statement Bausch is saying that
Pina Bausch was born Philippina Bausch in 1940 in Solingen, Germany. Bausch was a modern dance performer, and choreographer. When Pina was 15 she was accepted into the Folkwang Academy, this school was directed one of the pioneers of combining dance and drama into a new kind of theatre called Tanztheatre his name was Kurt Jooss. When Bausch graduated in 1959 she left Germany because she had gotten a scholarship …show more content…
Two years after being in new York Bausch joined Jooss new company called Folkwang Ballett as a soloist and had the liberty of assisting Jooss on many of the pieces that were shown she was so great at this that in 1968 she has the opportunity to choreograph a piece of her own called Fragmente and eventually in 1969 she became the artistic director of the company. Bausch became an artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera ballet and later on it was renamed as the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina …show more content…
Pina Bausch believes that her role is to convey feelings and emotions into dance, now this is why the pieces that are performed have such a meaningful factor towards it and the audience feels the emotions that the performer is showing, this is what Pina wants the audience to feel as if they are going on the journey with the performer. Pina once stated "It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience. One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do. We are not only here to please, we cannot help challenging the spectator." Now with this statement Bausch is saying that