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- ↑ Birringer, Johannes. "Pina Bausch: Dancing Across Borders." The Drama Review: TDR 30.2 (1986): 85-97.
- ↑ Manning, Susan Allene, and Melissa Benson. "Interrupted Continuities", The Drama Review 30:2 (Summer 1986), 30–45.
- ↑ Neun Jahre Schauspielhaus Bochum 1986-1995 (Nine Years at the Bochum Theater 1986-1995). Bochum: Schauspielhaus Bochum, 1996.
- ↑ Servos, Norbert. Solange man unterwegs ist: Die Tänzerin und Choreographin Reinhild Hoffmann (As Long as One Is on the Way: The Dancer and Choreographer Reinhild Hoffmann). Munich: K. Kieser Verlag, 2008.
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