Pina
“Dance, dance, or we are lost.” The final words in Wim Wenders’ breathtaking, Oscar-nominated tribute to Pina Bausch summarize the life of this dancer turned choreographer, Bausch and her Tantztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive realms. Wenders’s gorgeous cinematography captures the purity, intensity and dimensionality of her choreographic spaces. Bausch’s dances, according to the Guardian, “redrew the map of the theatre arts,” exploring love, despair, alienation, mortality and our relationship to nature. The on-location scenes drop us directly into the center of the action and Intimate interviews with her collaborators offer an indelible image of an artist who went the full distance. – (Germany, 2011, 103m, IFC, digital video) Shown in 2D.
April-May 2012
