2July2009
Esteem for German choreographer Pina Bausch
Posted by Cecilia under: Art and Culture.
Last Tuesday world-famous German choreographer Pina Bausch died of cancer at the age of 68.
Pina Bausch was a legendary as well as media-shy artist. She opened the way for a new form of body expression through dancing and speaking. Her avant-garde work strongly influenced modern ballet.
She was a most distinguished woman who got esteem throughout her life and from her work as a choreographer.
She explained her work like this: “Body and motion are the best possibility to express what affects us. It’s not art and skills, but life.”
We can give esteem to Pina Bausch and her work by remembering her important role in the world of ballet and dance art.
When we think of signs of esteem which we can give daily we think often of a simple smile. But there are other little signs of esteem which we can give daily.
Last week forty year old Schemesch, now a firefighter, got an emergency call from the house of his old neighbor. His house was full of smoke and flames. Schemesch saved his 80-year-old neighbor and her husband by ripping out a window frame, allowing them to escape.