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  • noun A form of German expressionist dance.

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German Tanztheater, "dance theatre".

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Examples

  • V.Sept. 3-12 www. tanztheater-international.de Leeds Music

    Time Off in Europe 2009

  • To her often adoring audiences around the world, where she made her mark with tanztheater, or "dance-theater" -- a seemingly free-form type of movement theater she took to the forefront of experimental dance -- Bausch was known simply as Pina.

    Pina Bausch, Visionary 2009

  • Bolero Variations, Hoghe, who served as the late Pina Bausch's dramaturge from 1980 to 1990, creates his own form of ritualized tanztheater, by turns meditative, funny, and electrifying.

    Today at the Walker Art Center 2009

  • Bolero Variations, Hoghe, who served as the late Pina Bausch's dramaturge from 1980 to 1990, creates his own form of ritualized tanztheater, by turns meditative, funny, and electrifying.

    Today at the Walker Art Center 2009

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