Monday, April 01, 2013
BEAUTIFUL KIDS
Today's film was the dance documentary
Tanzträume / Dancing Dreams (2010)
in which forty kids get to work for a year on one of Pina Bausch' dance theater works.
We have seen parts of this dance before. Kontakthof / Contact Zone. It was in the DVD Pina which shows her full adult company in a variety of pieces.
This one is about contact between men and women. For kids, an especially potent subject.
They are shy, they are diffident. They are awkward and ill at ease. And then they break through. Finally we get to see enough of the final product to marvel at the great affect this will have on their lives whether they become dancers or not.
It is also a variety of kids. Black, white, blond, dark. Ethnic varieties. Serb, Gypsy, African. And of course hard core German blonds!
Both genders grow into their adult possibilities. Pina says that the dance doesn't require adult moves and emotions. She means it to work for adolescents and it does. Transformation.
This is a 5 out of Netflix5. We own both Pina films and are very happy about it.
