Donya is the third studio album by Swedish pop singer of Iranian origin Arash Labaf. It was released in 2008.^[1][2]

Track listing[link]

1. Intro
2. Donya (feat. Shaggy)
3. Suddenly (feat. Rebecca)
4. Miduni Midunam
5. Kandi (feat. Lumidee)
6. Pure Love (feat. Helena)
7. Naro
8. Chori Chori (feat. Aneela)
9. Laf Laf
10. Joone Man
11. Tanham
12. Doset Nadaram
13. Dasa Bala (feat. Timbuktu, Aylar, YAG)
14. Donya (Payami Break Mix)

References[link]

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Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch (center) and Dominique Mercy (second from left) at the end of Wiesenland in 2009 in Paris.
Born	(1940-07-27)July 27, 1940 Solingen, Germany
Died	June 30, 2009(2009-06-30) (aged 68) Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany
Nationality	German
Other names	Philippine Bausch
Alma mater	Folkwangschule
Occupation	Modern dance choreographer
Influenced by	Kurt Jooss
Influenced	William Forsythe, Lloyd Newson, Alain Platel, Wayne McGregor
Website
Official website

Philippina "Pina" Bausch^[1] (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. With her unique style, a blend of movements, sounds and prominent stage sets, and with her elaborate cooperation with performers during the composition of a piece (a style now known as Tanztheater), she became a leading influence since the 1970s in the world of modern dance.^[2]

Early life[link]

Bausch was born in Solingen, near Düsseldorf, the third and youngest child of August and Anita Bausch, who owned a restaurant with guest rooms.^[3]

Career[link]

Bausch began dancing at a young age. In 1955 at the age of 14 she entered the Folkwangschule in Essen then directed by Germany's most influential choreographer Kurt Jooss, one of the founders of German Expressionist dance.

After graduation in 1959, Bausch left Germany with a scholarship to continue her studies at the Juilliard School in New York City in 1960, where her teachers included Antony Tudor, José Limón, and Paul Taylor. Bausch was soon performing with Tudor at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and with Paul Taylor at New American Ballet. When in 1960 Taylor was invited to premiere a new work named Tablet in Spoleto, Italy, he took Bausch with him. In New York she also performed with the Paul Sanasardo and Donya Feuer Dance Company, with which she collaborated on two pieces in 1961.^[4]

In 1962, Bausch joined Jooss' new Folkwang Ballett Company as a soloist and assisted Jooss on many of the pieces, before choreographing her first piece in 1968, Fragment, to music by Béla Bartók. In 1969, she succeeded Jooss as artistic director.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch[link]

In 1972, Bausch started as artistic director of the Wuppertal Opera Ballet, which was later renamed as the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. The company has a large repertoire of original pieces, and regularly tours throughout the world.

Her best-known dance-theatre works include the melancholic Café Müller (1978), in which dancers stumble around the stage crashing into tables and chairs, and a thrilling Rite of Spring (1975), which required the stage to be completely covered with soil.^[5]

Male-female interaction is a theme found throughout her work, which has been an inspiration for—and reached a wider audience through—the movie Talk to Her, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Her pieces are constructed of short units of dialogue and action, often of a surreal nature. Repetition is an important structuring device. Her large multi-media productions often involve elaborate sets and eclectic music. In Vollmond, half of the stage is taken up by a giant, rocky hill, and the score includes everything from Portuguese music to K. D. Lang.^[6]

In 1983, she played the role of La Principessa Lherimia in Federico Fellini's film And the Ship Sails On.^[7] The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch made its American debut in Los Angeles as the opening performance of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival.

Personal life[link]

Bausch was married to Dutch-born Rolf Borzik, a set and costume designer who died of leukemia in 1980. In 1981 Ronald Kay became her life-long companion and was the father of her son, Salomon.

Awards and honours[link]

Among the honours awarded to Bausch are the UK's Laurence Olivier Award and Japan's Kyoto Prize, while in 2008 the city of Frankfurt am Main awarded her its prestigious Goethe Prize. She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.^[8]

In 2009, Bausch started to collaborate with film director Wim Wenders on a 3D documentary, Pina. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011.

Works by Bausch will be staged in June and July 2012 as a highlight of the Cultural Olympiad preceding the Olympic Games 2012 in London. The works were created when Bausch was invited to visit and stay in 10 global locations – in India, Brazil, Palermo, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Budapest, Istanbul, Santiago, Rome and Japan – between 1986 and 2009. Seven of the works have not been seen in the UK.^[9]

Death[link]

Bausch died on 30 June 2009 in Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany at the age of 68^[10] of an unstated form of cancer (later reporting cites lung cancer after years of heavy smoking), five days after diagnosis^[2] and two days before shooting was scheduled to begin for the long-planned Wim Wenders documentary. She is survived by her son Salomon and her life long companion.

Wenders' documentary, Pina, was released in late 2011 in the United States, and is dedicated to her memory.

Works since 1973[link]

Filmography[link]

• 1980 Die Generalprobe. Documentary. Dir.: Werner Schroeter.
• 1983 What Are Pina Bausch and Her Dancers Doing in Wuppertal?. Documentary. Dir.: Klaus Wildenhahn.
• 1983 Plaisir du théâtre. TV mini-series documentary. Dir.: Georges Bensoussan.
• 1983 And the Ship Sails On. Drama. Dir.: Federico Fellini.
• 1983 Un jour Pina m'a demandé. TV documentary. Dir.: Chantal Akerman.
• 1990 The Complaint of an Empress. Dir.: Pina Bausch.
• 1990 3res 14torze 16tze. TV series. Episode dated 26 January 1990. Dir.: Cristina Ferrer.
• 1998 Lissabon Wuppertal Lisboa. TV documentary. Dir.: Fernando Lopes.
• 2002 Talk to Her. Drama. Dir.: Pedro Almodóvar.
• 2002 Pina Bausch - A Portrait by Peter Lindbergh based on 'Der Fensterputzer'. TV short. Dir.: Peter Lindbergh.
• 2004 La mandrágora. TV series. Dir.: Miguel Sarmiento
• 2006 Pina Bausch. TV documentary. Dir.: Anne Linsel.
• 2010 Dancing Dreams. Documentary. Dir.: Rainer Hoffmann, Anne Linsel.
• 2011 Pina – Dance Dance Otherwise We Are Lost. Documentary. Dir.: Wim Wenders.

Gallery[link]

Pina Bausch's Nelken (Carnations), 2005.

References[link]

Notes

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pina Bausch

• Official Website
• Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts Pina Bausch: Life and work, Mimi Tashiro, 1999
• Ballet Magazine Interview Valerie Lawson, 2002
• Goethe Institut 50 Choreographers of Contemporary Dance, Jochen Schmidt, 2009

Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov (Russian: Григо́рий Ли́пманович Соколо́в) is a concert pianist, often considered one of the greatest pianists alive. He was born April 18, 1950 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.^[1]

Biography[link]

Sokolov began studying the piano at the age of five, entering the Leningrad Conservatory at age seven to study with Leah Zelikhman, later studying there with Moisey Khalfin. At age twelve he gave his first major recital in Moscow, in a concert of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy, and Shostakovich at the Philharmonic Society.^[2] At age sixteen he came to international attention when the jury at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, headed by Emil Gilels, unanimously awarded him the Gold Medal. It seems this may have also been a surprising result: "16-year old Grisha Sokolov who finally became the winner of that competition was not taken seriously by anyone at that time."^[3]

In fact, despite the international prestige of his Tchaikovsky Competition success, Sokolov's international career began to take off only towards the end of the 1980s. Reasons for this have been contradictory. It has been said ^[4] that his not defecting, and the limited travelling allowed under the Soviet Regime were to blame. This is contradicted by the fact^[2] that Sokolov gave US tours in 1969, 1971, 1975, and 1979, as well as numerous recitals elsewhere in the world such as Finland and Japan. "Sokolov's life as a touring soloist is quite overcrowded. He tours a great deal in both his motherland and abroad."^[2]

The 1980s seem to have proved something of a stumbling-block to Sokolov's career in the US. "In the beginning, I played a lot of single concerts in America, in 1969, '71 and, I think, 1975. After that there was a break in relationships between the U.S. and the Soviet Union--they were disconnected by the Afghanistan War. One tour in the U.S. was canceled in 1980. Then all cultural agreements between the two countries were cancelled."^[5] In addition, during the breakup of the former Soviet Union, Sokolov played no concerts outside Russia.^[6] He is now a well-known figure in concert halls around Europe, but much less so in the U.S.^[7] Sokolov produces very few recordings; his last last CD was released in 1995.^[7]

In March 2009 it was reported that Sokolov canceled a planned concert in London because of British visa requirements demanding that all non-EU workers provide fingerprints and eye prints with every visa application (he also cancelled his 2008 concert on seemingly similar grounds). Sokolov protested that such requirements had echoes of Soviet oppression.^[8]

Influences[link]

When asked, Sokolov cited the following pianists as having inspired him in his years of studies: "Of those whom I heard on the stage I'd like to name first of all Emil Gilels. Judging by the records, it was Rachmaninoff, Sofronitsky, Gould, Solomon [and] Lipatti. As to esthetics, I feel most close to Anton Rubinstein."^[2]

Repertoire[link]

The 10 CDs (2 of Bach, 2 of Beethoven, 2 of Schubert, 2 of Chopin, 1 of Brahms, and 1 of Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev; all recorded by the label Opus 111) and 1 DVD (a live recital in Paris) that are currently (2011) available for Sokolov constitute a snap-shot of the repertoire that Sokolov has so far performed. A more complete repertoire listing is as follows:

• ARAPOV

1. Concerto for violin, piano and percussion
2. Etude-Scherzo
3. Sonatas No.s 1 & 2

• BACH

1. Art of Fugue
2. English Suite No.2
3. Fantasy & Fugue in a minor, BWV 904
4. French Suite No.3
5. Goldberg Variations
6. Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
7. Overture in the French style, BWV 831
8. Partitas Nos. 2, 4 & 6
9. Sonata in A-min after Reinken’s Hortus Musicus 1-5, BWV760
10. Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
11. Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, 1-8
12. Well-Tempered Clavier Book II

BACH-SILOTI Prelude in b-min

BACH-BRAHMS Chaconne for the left-hand BWV1004

BACH-BUSONI "Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesus Christ" BWV639

BACH-BUSONI "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein" BWV734

• BEETHOVEN

1. Sonatas No.s 2, 3, 4, 7, 9-11, 13-17 & 27-32
2. Diabelli Variations
3. Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
4. Rondos Op.51 & Op.129

• BRAHMS

1. Sonata No.1 in C major, Op.1
2. Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5
3. 4 Ballades Op.10
4. Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15
5. Variations on a Theme by Handel Op. 24
6. 2 Rhapsodies Op.79
7. Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op.83
8. 8 Fantasies Op.116
9. 6 Klavierstücke, Op.118 - no.1 Intermezzo in A minor; no.2 Intermezzo in A major; no.6 Intermezzo in E flat minor
10. 3 Intermezzi Op.117

• BYRD

1. Pavan & Galliard MB52
2. Alman MB11
3. Prelude MB12
4. Clarifica me Pater (II) MB48
5. Qui Passe MB19
6. March before the Battle MB93
7. Battle MB94
8. Galliard for Victory MB95

• CARVALHO-SOKOLOV Toccata and Andante in G

• CHOPIN

1. Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52
2. Concertos No.s 1 & 2
3. Etude Op.10 No.8
4. Etudes Op.25
5. Fantasie-Impromptu Op.66
6. Fantasy Op.49
7. Impromptus Op.29, Op.36 & Op.51
8. Mazurkas Op.7 No.2, Op.17 No.4, Op.30 No.s 1-4, Op.33 No.4, Op.50 No.s 1-3, Op.63 No.s 1-3, Op.68 #No.s 2-4, Op.posth
9. Nocturnes Op.32 No.s 1 & 2, Op.48 No.s 1 & 2, Op.62 No.s 1&2, Op.72, Op.posth
10. Polonaise-Fantasie Op.61
11. Polonaises Op.26 No.s 1 & 2, Op.40 No.2, Op.44, Op.53, Op.posth.
12. Preludes Op.28
13. Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3
14. Waltz No.17 Op.posth

• COUPERIN

1. Le Tic-Toc-Choc ou les Maillotins
2. Pieces de clavecin Book III Ordre XIII & Ordre XVIII

• DEBUSSY

1. Canope (from Preludes, Book II, No.10)

• FRANCK

1. Prelude, Chorale & Fugue

• FROBERGER

1. Toccata FbWV101
2. Canzon FbWV301
3. Fantasia FbWV201
4. Ricercar FbWV411
5. Capriccio FbWV508
6. Partita FbWV610

• HAYDN

1. Piano Sonatas Hob XVI: 23, 37 & 34

• KOMITAS

1. Six Dances

• LISZT

1. La Campanella
2. Rhapsodie Espagnole

• MOZART

1. Concertos No.s 23 & 24
2. Sonatas KV.280, KV.310, KV.332 & KV.457
3. Fantasy KV.475

• PROKOFIEV

1. Concerto No.1
2. Sonatas No.s 3, 7 & 8

• RACHMANINOV

1. Concertos No.s 2 & 3
2. Preludes Op2 No.3, Op.23 No.s 1-8 & 10, Op.32 No.5

• RAMEAU

1. Suite in D de pièces de clavecin (1724) — in his repertory in 2012
2. Suite in G/g de pièces de clavecin (1726) — in his repertory before 2012
3. "Le rappel des oiseaux" & "Tambourin" from Suite in E minor (1724)

• RAVEL

1. Gaspard de la nuit
2. Oiseaux Tristes (From Miroirs)
3. Prelude
4. Sonatine
5. Tombeau de Couperin

• SAINT-SAENS

1. Concerto No.2

• SCHOENBERG

1. Two Pieces Op.33

• SCHUBERT

1. Impromptus D.935 No.s 1 & 2
2. Moment Musicaux D.780
3. Sonatas D537, D.664, D.784, D.850, D.894, D.958, D.959 & D.960
4. Wanderer Fantasy

• SCHUMANN

1. Carnaval Op.9
2. Sonata No.1 in F-sharp minor, Op.11
3. Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.22
4. Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.14
5. Kreisleriana Op.16
6. Fantasie Op.17
7. Arabesque Op.18
8. Humoresque Op.20
9. Novelletten Op.21 nos. 2, 7 & 8
10. Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.22
11. 4 Klavierstücke (Scherzo, Gigue, Romance and Fughette) Op.32
12. Variations in E-flat on an Original Theme, WoO 24, "Geister Variations"

• SCRIABIN

1. Caresse Dansee Op.57 No.2
2. Dèsir Op.57 No.1
3. Enigme Op.52 No.2
4. Etudes Op.2 No.1, Op.8, Op.42 No.s 4 & 5
5. Feuillet d’Album Op.45 No.1
6. Poème fantastique Op.45 No.2
7. Poèmes Op.32 No.2, Op.69 No.s 1 & 2
8. Prelude & Nocturne Op.9
9. Preludes Op.33 No.s 1-4, Op.45 No.3, Op.49 No.2 & Op.51 No.2
10. Sonatas No.s 1, 3, 4, 9 & 10
11. Vers la flamme Op.72

• SEIXAS-SOKOLOV Toccatas in D & C

• STRAVINSKY

1. Petrouchka

• TCHAIKOVSKY

1. Concerto No.1

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External links[link]

• Grigory Sokolov General Management
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