Pina Bausch received the Goethe Prize, which is bestowed for artistic or intellectual achievement and is one of Germany’s highest honors, in Frankfurt in 2008. (Thomas Lohnes / AFP/Getty Images)
Bausch was director of the Wuppertal Dance Theater. (Michael Probst / Associated Press)
Bausch is awarded the title Commander of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Jack Lang, left, in Paris in 1991. (Michel Clement / AFP/Getty Images)
Bausch accepts the audience’s applause with the cast of her production “Indian Night” in Munich in 1998. (Ursula Kaufman / AFP/Getty Images)
Bausch performs in her ballet “Cafe Muller” in Avignon, France. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP/Getty Images)
Julie Shanahan performs in Pina Bausch’s ballet “Ten Chi,” which debuted at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 2007. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Dancers from Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal perform a scene from “Wiesenland” at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. (Franck Fife / AFP/Getty Images)
Dancer Ruth Amarante performs in the Bausch ballet “Rough Cut” in Berlin. (Michael Kappeler / AFP/Getty Images)
German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch dances in her production of “Cafe Mueller” in Munich in 1997. (Ursula Kaufmann / AFP/Getty Images)
We have lost with Pina Bausch a wonderful artist, a world-class dancer and choreographer, and last but not least, a prominent representative of German culture, German President Horst Koehler said. (Henning Kaiser / AFP/Getty Images)
