Pina Bausch
Choreographer
Germany
© Ursula Kaufmann
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Shanghai International Dance Center Theater, in collaboration with the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, for the presentation of Kontakthof - Echoes of '78, a Sadler's Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch production.
Pina Bausch was born in 1940, in Solingen, and died in 2009, in Wuppertal. She received her dance training at the Folkwang School in Essen under Kurt Jooss, where she achieved technical excellence.
Soon after the director of Wuppertal's theatres, Arno Wüstenhöfer, engaged her as choreographer, from autumn 1973, she renamed the ensemble the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Under this name, although controversial at the beginning, the company gradually achieved international recognition.
Its combination of poetic and everyday elements influenced the international development of dance decisively. Awarded some of the greatest prizes and honours world-wide, Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of our time.
