Pina Bausch Essays

  • Pina Baausch And The Style Of Dance Theatre

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    Pina Bausch was born in was born 1940 in Solingen Germany, during Pina’s life she became one of the most influential figures in dance theatre and physical theatre. Pina’s unique style and techniques have changed the way many practitioners now look at creating theatre. During Pina’s early years she received dance training at Folkwang School in Essen under Kurt Jooss. Whilst being taught at Folkwang Pina achieved extraordinary dancing technique. After leaving Folkwang Pina then went on to direct at

  • What Is Physical Theatre?

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    else, voice can also be used but that’s not the main focus. “Our bodies are the reflections of our lives: sitting, walking, standing, we absorb the impact of each day. Each thought and sensation makes changes in the body” (Tufnell and Crickmay, 2014). Pina Baush is well known for making her productions based on real life experiences, she made sure that her performers could truly experience the emotions before they performed and from this she started

  • Bausch + Lomb's Unethical Practices and the FASB Codifications

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    Bausch + Lomb, now a division of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. began in 1853 in Rochester, New York, as a small optical shop that grew to become a multi-billion dollar corporation with approximately 12,000 employees worldwide. Its mission is to help you see better to live better, and to protect and enhance the gift of sight. Its products consist of three different marketed goods. The first of which is its vision care segment that includes products such as contact lenses, and solution

  • Analysis Of Pia Baausch's 'Pina'

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    Through Wim Wender’s aesthetically pleasing documentary, Pina, we view Pina Bausch’s famous choreographies within the Tanztheater Wuppertal from an insider's perspective. Bausch explores the politics of gender through movement. Pina Bausch begins to challenge gender socialization as she assumes the role of choreographer because in dance, power is located within the movements. Bausch complies with the ideal that the female dancer is the substrate through which the male expresses himself. He sets the

  • Analysis Of Vollmond By Pina Baausch

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    Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: Pina BauschVollmond Vollmond by Pina Bausch was created in 2006 and it accentuates dancers of all races and ages in their search for solitude and an in-depth desire to love. The dance is full of unfeeling apathy, laughter and a startling vitality. There are dizzying, poignant and amazing solos that are performed on some bare proscenium. However, these actions alternates with features of both playful and playful seduction as well as comical theatre sketches within

  • Ratmansch's Expressionist Movement

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    description or imitation, later movements attempted to abolish individual expression, order, form, and rules. Even later, movements meshed the two styles together, creating another style in it’s own right, as exemplified with Ratmansky’s works. Pina Bausch exemplifies the 20th century expressionist movement with intense, expressive movements while, later on, Merce Cunningham sought to break down this very notion of dance. Then, Alexei Ratmansky combines the two styles, forming an expressive, yet less

  • Pina Bausch's Role Of Modern Dance

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    Pina Bausch was a German dancer, performer, and choreographer of Modern dance who was born July 27, 1940 in Solingen, Germany. At a young age, she performed in the restaurant her parents owned, which is where her parents saw her potential for dance. After performing with the children’s ballet of Solingen, she enrolled at the Folkwang School in 1955 at the age of fifteen and became a member of Kurt Jooss’s performing company. Bausch later became an exchange student at the Julliard School in New York

  • Ruth St. Williams: A Brief History Of Contemporary Dance

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    What is the history of Contemporary dance? Contemporary dance is a style of dance developed and created throughout the mid-twentieth century that has since grown to be one of the most used and more dominant dance genres. With main popularity in Europe and the US. It was originally formed by borrowing movements from styles such as classical, modern, jazz and ballet styles it has since started borrowing from many styles and now has styles borrowing movements from itself. Although contemporary dance

  • Trestle Theatre Company: Physical Theatre

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    What is Physical Theatre? Physical Theatre is a type of theatre used to tell a story, putting emphasis on physical movement rather than dialogue. Merging drama and dance to shape different forms of performance, physical theatre shows that words aren’t always necessary to convey ideas in theatre. Popular techniques include contemporary dance, mime and gestures to explore complex cultural and social issues. But most other movement-driven theatre could also be classed as physical theatre, such as

  • Reflection On How I Dance

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    In this analytical reflection, I will be analysing the practical performance with an emphasis placed on the compositional process. I will also reflect upon any criticisms received, reflecting on how the critical response process helped shape my groups performance. Throughout the development of our piece, it became focused on reliance and how we rely on a variety of objects and people to get through life. This made us research into how we can show reliance with our bodies. I looked at the choreographer

  • Total Theatre: Newsons Deviation Towards Total Theatre?

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    Chapter 3 Newsons deviation towards Total Theatre? Total Theatre is a genre which believes all areas of performance bear equal importance to a shows success. From the pieces physicality and text to the stages; set, lighting and sound, no element is an afterthought of the creative process. A concept originally established by director and Composer Richard Wagner in the mid-19th century as Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), it is a concept that has influenced many practitioners including pioneering

  • Ballet Modern Dance

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    needs. In France, determined financial support from governmental sources stimulated a buoyant creativity in modern dance during the 1970’s and 1980’s. In Germany, an earlier tradition of free dance has surfaced again in the work of such creators as Pina Bausch in Wuppertal, where her angry, anguished dance theatre concentrates on the psychological tensions and isolations of modern life.” Clark and Crisp close their book by claiming that “theatre dance continues, adapts and expands around the globe. Ballet