If, like Sister Tiao, you have seen a lot of mixed works, you have to admit—
Great artists do have unique insight and expressiveness.
They are constantly imitated, but never surpassed, and no matter how hard the latecomers try, they cannot become their true inheritance.
Their appearance, like the coming of God, is the Messiah of the art world.
Pina Bausch, who has passed away for 10 years this year, is such a great artist.
Pina died of lung cancer at the age of 68 in 2009.
Five days before her diagnosis, she was still working on her theater stage.
The sudden departure not only made her dance troupe fall into a leaderless situation, but also brought the documentary "Pina" by the famous German director Wim Wenders into a deadlock.
Who is Pina Bausch ?
Wikipedia will tell you this:
Pina Bausch --
Founder of "Dance Theater"
First Lady of German Modern Dance
"Germany's number one export culture, because no one else in the world has written a dance history like her."
Anyone who knows a little about modern dance will tell you:
For the history of modern dance , there are two dancers that cannot be ignored.
One is the originator of modern dance - Isabella Duncan, who liberated dance from the rigid classical ballet system;
Another person who can be compared with Duncan is Pina Bausch.
Her dance theater has no taboos.
When choreographed, there is no script, no music, only Pina's questions and dancers' improvisations.
The dancers who are "beautiful" and not "conventional", under her guidance, break through the world's imagination of "dance" again and again.
Dirt, stones, ropes, animals, food, flowers are all props.
Pain and love, beauty and absurdity, freedom and bondage, humor and loneliness are all themes.
The troupe members who work with her love her and say that Pina taught them a whole new language.
Countless literary critics tried to explain her in words, but all failed.
Whether it is Cubism, Fauvism, or German Expressionism, it is always superfluous to explain her dance in words.
As Pina once said:
"There are some situations that cannot be described in words, but can only be understood. Words are just a wedge."
This is Pina Bausch - the top idol in the art world .
——Since becoming famous, from the body to the soul, Pina has eaten up the people who are engaged in literature and art one after another, and has been fascinated by younger brothers and sisters, many of whom are film masters.
Fellini , invited her to star in "The Ship Goes On".
Stills of "The Ship Continues"
Almodovar , directly put Pina and her dance theater work "Café Mueller" into "Tell Her".
It even claimed that the inspiration for "Tell Her" came from "Mueller's Cafe" .
Stills of "Tell Her", with Pina facing the wall
German director Wim Wenders , who won the Palme d'Or in Cannes for "Paris, Texas" and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Berlin International Film Festival , even used the under-appreciated 3D technology to shoot a personal documentary for her .
Originally, the fan brother Wenders had prepared enough for the documentary "Pina".
He has already discussed with Pina how to use the film lens to show Pina's dance art.
No one expected that Pina died of cancer just a few days before filming began.
In this way, "Pina" has changed from a "documentary" to a "memoir" in a situation that was beyond everyone's expectations.
The time is 2009, before "Avatar" was released.
At this point in time, Wenders used 3D technology to record the essence of Pina's many representative works "The Rite of Spring", "Mueller Cafe", "Communication Field" and "Full Moon" , which is undoubtedly bold.
But he achieved his purpose—
In a short time of 106 minutes, the maximum visual impact was achieved .
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature that year.
In addition to Pina herself, there are also Pina's colleagues - dancers at the Wuppertal Theater.
In addition to the fragments of Pina's works, what you can see is the infinite respect and memory of the dance world for her.
It is Pina's soul that is scattered among them and connects these fragments with spirit.
This is why, although Pina only appeared for a few minutes, Wenders' "Pina" is still the best window for ordinary people to understand Pina Bausch herself.
At Salon Sunday, we'll start with Wenders' "Pina" to gossip about Pina, her work, and her many intersections with the world of cinema.
"The Queen's Tragedy" stills
including but not limited to:
Pina's representative plays "The Rite of Spring", "Müller's Cafe", "Bluebeard" and "Communication Field"
10 years since Pina's death, her dance company's new drama "After Her" and "Good Day, Bob"
Pina's only film, "The Queen's Elegy"
Chantal Ackerman, the female director who filmed her documentary "One Day Pina Asked Me"
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