By Jennifer Piejko

Pina is filmmaker Wim Wenders’s eulogy to German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009), and what will be for many a bittersweet introduction to her revolutionary work. Spending a lifetime interpreting and expanding the definitions of modern dance, her visionary incorporation of theater into her practice of German Expressionist dance left Wenders and her company mourning the loss of a playwright as well as a choreographer.