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  • A city of west-central Germany east-northeast of Düsseldorf. It is an industrial center.

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  • proper noun a city in western Germany

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  • Caspar Brötzmann Koksofen, Peter Brötzmann Live in Wuppertal, Leo Brouwer Contemporaneos 3, Bobby Brown Dance!,

    6799 : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • A German think tank called the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy convened a group of designers, economists, development experts, and materials geeks and launched the Factor 10 Club.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • A German think tank called the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy convened a group of designers, economists, development experts, and materials geeks and launched the Factor 10 Club.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • A German think tank called the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy convened a group of designers, economists, development experts, and materials geeks and launched the Factor 10 Club.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • A German think tank called the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy convened a group of designers, economists, development experts, and materials geeks and launched the Factor 10 Club.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • Born in 1923 in an area of Westphalia now known as Wuppertal birthplace of aspirin!

    Death Notice: Horst Tappert Arbogast 2008

  • As audiences entered the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the U.S. premiere of Pina Bausch's "Vollmond (Full Moon)," a two-act production from 2006 with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, it found, projected on a lobby wall, Twitter comments sent to BAM regarding the choreographer, who died in 2009 at age 68.

    Tides of Memory Robert Greskovic 2010

  • Dances occur in quarries, factory grounds, sleek modernist architecture, well-trafficked urban streets, and monorail cars in the German city of Wuppertal where the company has been based for decades.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

  • Dances occur in quarries, factory grounds, sleek modernist architecture, well-trafficked urban streets, and monorail cars in the German city of Wuppertal where the company has been based for decades.

    Glen Helfand: Full-Bodied Film Glen Helfand 2011

  • Tanztheatr Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Iphigenie Auf Tauris, LondonIn the year following Pina Bausch's death, her work has, ironically, enjoyed an unprecedentedly rich showing in the UK, culminating in this London premiere of Iphigenie Auf Tauris.

    This week's new dance Judith Mackrell 2010

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