a colleague here in NYC and one from Spain has just sent word that Pina Bausch has apparently died.
no further details.

it is on the company's official site.

http://www.pina-bausch.de/news.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jun/3...sch-dies-dancer

a great loss for the dance world and I can't belive it. I loved hew work, and she was only 68.

This is indeed sad news. I admired her work very much and there's no denying her influence -- it has been enormous.

I had a European cable news program on (Euronews) and they did a very nice brief feature, with several dance clips. Can you imagine any American TV station doing that?

Alisstair Macaulays appraisal is here (NY Times) is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/arts/dan....html?ref=dance

"Wim Wenders has decided to forge ahead with Pina, his 3D dance film about legendary choreographer Pina Bausch, who died last month."
Here is the link.