A documentary on dance, accessible and visually quaking, is the promise of Dancing Pina, Today available on DVD and Blu-ray. The opportunity to (re)dive into the life of Pina Bausch and his artistic progeny.
Artistic dialogues
Alternating between the School of Sands in Dakar and the Semperoper in Germany, Dancing Pina offers the artistic conversation between former members of the Tanztheater of the famous dancer Pina Bausch, and new young dancers with a wide range of backgrounds, whose experience extends from classical ballet to hip hop in particular.
Pina Bausch is the revival of dance. Between her birth in 1940 and her death in 2009, she reinvented classical ballet codes with her colleagues. The dancers are individualized, characterized, inspired by a history and a life of their own. Resolutely modern, it is the history of this transmission that the director Florian Heinzen-Ziob wants to paint in Dancing Pina, his third film for cinema.
Large gap between rigour and pure grace
Stakhanovist rigor is married to pure grace in Dancing Pina, especially by the ability to observe the director, who lets his camera run on long sequences to get forgotten and capture the very essence of what is happening on the stage. From rehearsals to performances, from Germany to Senegal, the scenes and dancers constantly dialogue with each other, creating beautiful mirror games worn to their climax when The Shrine of Spring, at the representation cancelled because of VOCID-19, will finally find its way on the uniform extent of a beach. The most beautiful sequence of the film probably, magnified by the razing lights of dusk...
« I'd like to spend my life restoring the beauty I received. »
A film to see in diptych with the Pina of the Wim Wenders, shot in 3D with the complicity of the dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. A Wim Wenders who is also making news today by keeping this same 3D device allied to the documentary, to explore the work of another great contemporary artist, Anselm Kiefer in Anselm, the sound of time. But it's a whole different story...
Let us note that Dancing Pina by Florian Heinzen-Ziob is a true artistic experience valid for both dance feruses and perfect neophytes, to be discovered now in physical format.
Data sheet
Blu-ray Region B (France)
Publisher: Blaq Out
Duration: 112 min
Release date: 03 October 2023
Video format : 1080p/24 – 1.78
Soundtrack Original Multilingual version DTS-HD MA 5.1 (and 2.0)
Subtitles French
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