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In the 1970s, the lady who never wanted to go home at night sparked a revolution in the world of dance, and became one of modern Germany's greatest cultural representatives. In the wake of her death yesterday aged 68, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praises her ability to produce "dance that was about all of us." The daily goes on to eulogise her talent for "mixing theatre with dance that had hitherto been silent, and orchestrating the resurgence of everyday language through untamed gesture, which made her the queen of dance on every continent." The choreographer whose motto was "I'm not interested in how people move, only in what moves them," revitalised her medium with creations that were marked by serious social criticism and humour infused with sadness.
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