someone died who mattered to me

[keryx]

Pina Bausch died this week. I know her as an influence (and collaborator?) of Anne Bogart, one of my own huge theatrical - and as it turns out, life - influences. Bausch and Bogart blur the lines between visual theatre and theatrical dance. Which is which? Who stops where?

It doesn't matter. I see the world differently thanks to Pina Bausch, though, and I would love for you to see it too. Not that Youtube can adequately express live dance, but at least it can try.

Here's some of Vollmond, I think my personal favorite example of her being awesome...
part 1
part 2
part 3

It's like joy and gut-wrenching, on stage. She could also create work that was deeply creepy, even offensive. Her most famous work shows a little of that...
Sacre du Printemps/Rites of Spring
Cafe Muller

Comments

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness someone else on my FL knew about her! The silence in re: my post has been deafening. And yet I have plenty of theatre and dance people among my friends, so I'm baffled.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I don't have as many theatre people on my flist as I used to, and my dance folk tend to be kindof in their folk dance bubble... so I wasn't surprised not to get responses. I'd be happy for people to just watch some of her work.

Well, that, and stop endlessly chattering about the tragedy of celebrity deaths. Everyone dies. Some people make cool stuff before they do.