I dance, therefore I am - a review of the movie "Pina"

Barrett 2022-04-20 09:02:53

German film "Pina". Director Mendez's transition between stage art and natural scenes is really smooth and comfortable. The props of earth, stone, water and wooden chairs, flashing freeze-frames, actor reminiscences, outdoor "theatre", Pina videos and montages of characters are all impressive and powerfully constitute the different forms and segments of the film.

What surprised me was that Pina's modern dances did not use modern music much, but more traditional singing vocal music, which made me feel comfortable and satisfied, and we finally didn't have to struggle between the visual and auditory ends at the same time: modern The abstract vocabulary of dance is precisely balanced by the perceptual music, obtaining a clear sense of reality and expressive ability, and the language and narration of dance are more intrinsic and pure. The modernity of Pina dance is completely defined by the ontology language of its dance. .

At the same time, on the contrary, music, with the help of Pina's dance theater, transcends the constraints of the so-called musical language under the traditional shell of comprehensive art, and its modernity is unexpectedly recreated.

The lens travels between the reality of life and the dream of art. Life and art can be so integrated, and the essence and form of the dream and the dream can be each other's essence and form. , Intense, resistance, boredom, confusion, despair, weakness, helplessness, lust and madness, pain and death, or happiness, relaxation, selflessness, attachment and powerlessness, hurt and hurt, through the four seasons of life, guarding ideals and mutual Support...

The pale language is inexhaustible, let dance express it - Pina said: dance, dance, otherwise, we are lost. Dance, dance, or we will be lost. Live, dance; dance, live. I dance, therefore I am. This is the dance of drama and philosophy - Pina and Pina in my eyes.

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Extended Reading

Pina quotes

  • Pina Bausch: What are we longing for? Where does all this yearning come from?