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Pina Bausch

1940 - 2009

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Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who, with a blend of movement, sound, and prominent stage sets, and with performers during the development of a piece (a style now known as Tanztheater), became an influence in the field of modern dance from the 1970s on. She continued the European and American Expressionist movements in dance with modernist works in the highly dramatic mode of modern dance theatre dealing with psychological trauma arising from relationships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pina Bausch has received more than 587,523 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Pina Bausch is the 6th most popular dancer (up from 7th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from Germany (up from 275th in 2019) and the most popular German Dancer.

Pina Bausch was a German choreographer who is most famous for her avant-garde and expressionistic style of dance.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Pina Bausch ranks 6 out of 75. Before her are Mata Hari, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, and Josephine Baker. After her are Vaslav Nijinsky, Marius Petipa, Maurice Béjart, Maya Plisetskaya, Margot Fonteyn, and Martha Graham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Pina Bausch ranks 18. Before her are Qaboos bin Said al Said, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Frank Zappa, Saparmurat Niyazov, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, and Wangari Maathai. After her are Gao Xingjian, Michel Temer, J. M. Coetzee, Brian De Palma, Joachim Gauck, and Martin Sheen. Among people deceased in 2009, Pina Bausch ranks 5. Before her are Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Kim Dae-jung. After her are Paul Samuelson, David Carradine, Roh Moo-hyun, Aage Bohr, Millvina Dean, Maurice Jarre, and Farrah Fawcett.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Pina Bausch ranks 235 out of 5,289. Before her are Irma Grese (1923), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Leopold von Ranke (1795), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), and Eduard Bernstein (1850). After her are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Valentinian II (371), Walther von Brauchitsch (1881), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), and Eduard Buchner (1860).

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Among DANCERS In Germany

Among dancers born in Germany, Pina Bausch ranks 1. After her are Mary Wigman (1886).

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