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If richer towns help, says Mr Jung, Wuppertal can balance its budget by 2015.
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In 1973, a 33-year-old dancer named Pina Bausch was invited to take over the directorship of Wuppertal's ballet.
ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world
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But perhaps the most surprising development in German dance took place in the small town of Wuppertal, near Cologne.
ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world
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Wuppertal's orchestra has a rival that plays in nearby Solingen and Remscheid.
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The Christian Democratic Union, the most sceptical big party, was an enthusiastic backer of the Tempelhof referendum, notes Volker Mittendorf of the University of Wuppertal.
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For years, Wenders was planning a collaboration with the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who had run the Tanztheater Wuppertal, in northwest Germany, since the early nineteen-seventies.
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Without her example, someone like Ms Waltz would not be thriving, although Ms Waltz is adamant that she is more influenced by Trisha Brown, an American choreographer, than her compatriot in Wuppertal.
ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world
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Tanztheater Wuppertal, the dance company founded by the late Pina Bausch, will soon begin a lengthy season at Sadler's Wells, while galleries are showing works by artists like Tino Sehgal and Hans-Peter Feldmann.
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According to the lawsuit filed this week, the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid, a trade association holding rights to the certified Solingen knife collection, are suing Stewart, Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network.
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One of the wonders of this intense interest for dance among Germans is that it has flowered in relative backwaters such as Wuppertal and Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen town where the annual dance festival now draws nearly half of its audiences from outside Germany.
ECONOMIST: Germany is now the dance centre of the world