some thoughts

Israel 2022-03-31 09:01:09

19.05.19 The director of the archives said it well. The reality is that everyone is immersed in the sadness of Pina's death. However, in the documentary genre with realism as the main function, Pina's positive and optimistic attitude towards life is shown to the troupe. The touch brought by everyone and even the director himself. What is true is up to each individual to judge. So it's destined that Pina will be a very unusual documentary. From the beginning of the 3D presentation, to the advancement of the whole film, the choreography is linked one by one, extending from the memory of Pina to the integration of modern dance art with industry, city and nature, making Pina's influence not only limited to The troupe itself, as the audience under the stage, can also feel this vitality, so that their body can't help but want to dance with it. This kind of life force, this kind of impulse, is sometimes like this, and it can't help but come.

PS Every long skirt looks good, really, very beautiful!

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  • Bailey 2022-03-30 08:01:02

    Much more than a homage or reconstruction through re-enactment, this is a dance about dance, a meta-dance, how superfluous the traditional interview seems to be in the various ways of feeling Pina (Wenders simply let the interviewee's The narration and the pictures showing their faces are separated). It is right that we use the same language to evaluate an art: words to evaluate words, images to evaluate images, and bodies to evaluate bodies. @ Archives

  • Rosalia 2022-04-03 09:01:12

    After watching SYTYCD for so many years, modern dance, as the freest and most infectious dance, its energy is to inspire resonance. The dancers show their strength and softness under the lens of Wenders. You can feel the vicissitudes of life and Innocent, hopeful and desperate, persistent and struggling, they convey the love of dance and life, they are all Pina. It's a pity that there is not enough time to recall the love and pain, beauty and loneliness in each dance.

Pina quotes

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