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BERLIN – Pina Bausch, a German choreographer known for her pioneering work, has died. She was 68.
The Wuppertal Dance Theater in western Germany, where she had served as director for more than 35 years, said she died Tuesday, five days after being diagnosed with cancer. It gave no details.
An innovative creator of striking, absurdist scenes, Bausch won Britain’s Laurence Olivier Award in 2006 for outstanding achievement in dance. She was honored for her productions "Carnations" and "Palermo Palermo."
In 2007, she won Japan’s Kyoto Prize for arts and philosophy for her pioneering work in developing a new genre of ballet dubbed "Tanztheater," or dance theater.
The Wuppertal theater said Bausch and her company last appeared on stage in the German city June 21.
Born in 1940 in Solingen, Germany, Bausch started her dance studies at the Folkwang School in Essen and later trained at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
She danced at the New American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera in New York before returning to Germany in 1962.
Back home, Bausch joined the Folkwang Ballet in Essen, where her own choreography became part of the program in 1968. Five years later, she became director and choreographer of the newly founded Wuppertal theater.
MANILA, Philippines – Claro Cortes III, a former United Press International and Associated Press reporter who helped cover the 1986 revolt that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has died. He was 49.
He died Sunday from complications following a stroke in May and was hospitalized because of breathing difficulties, said his wife, Agnes Cortes.
Cortes began his career at UPI’s Manila bureau in the early ’80s. He joined the AP in 1987, and remained until poor health forced him to leave in 1999.
After the 1986 revolt, Cortes also covered the unrest that followed, including a string of failed coup attempts against President Corazon Aquino, who succeeded Marcos.
During a rally of left-wing farmers in 1987, he was photographed helping to carry demonstrators to safety after they had been shot by security forces near the presidential palace.
In July 1990, Cortes scrambled over roads blocked by landslides to report on a devastating earthquake in northern Baguio city. The following year he was among a group of journalists who narrowly escaped a giant cloud of gas and volcanic ash when Mount Pinatubo erupted.
