Marion Cito, ingenious costume designer to Pina Bausch, dies aged 85

Cito, who had been a dancer herself, spent 40 years working for Tanztheater Wuppertal

The costume designer Marion Cito, whose gowns, suits and occasional swimwear were integral to choreographer Pina Bausch’s dance-theatre, has died at the age of 85. Her death on Saturday was announced by the company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.

Born in Berlin in 1938, Cito began to work with Bausch in 1976 as an assistant and a dancer. She had previously been a ballerina and was a principal soloist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she performed work by Tatjana Gsovsky, George Balanchine and Kenneth McMillan.

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