Pina Bausch: World Cities, Sadler's Wells & Barbican Theatre, London

Describing the late Pina Bausch as a choreographer is a bit like calling a unicorn a kind of horse " not untrue, just inadequate. She was an animator, a conjuror of stage pictures, a prober of human experience, who just happened to use dancers to get her effects. Art-house film directors such as Pedro Almodovar and Wim Wenders (whose documentary Pina has vastly widened her audience) were in thrall to her because she …

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