Pina Dance Analysis

“Pina dance, dance otherwise we are lost” Pina is the name of the movie I watched. It’s a series of performances by a extensive group of about twenty dancers. The movie consisted of a series of settings. Throughout the performances the aforesaid theme was applied. The dancers were consistently liberated, but sometimes used very sharp quick movements. The dancing styles were mostly modern and contemporary. The themes were quite troublesome to catch on to but I attempted to unravel each performance and use precise detail to explain the larger picture. There were two main performances in the movie, but was continuously interrupted to show assorted performance short but very entertaining. Each minute performance was designed to show each dancer …show more content…
I’ve never seen that done before and requires the dancer to use every other sense with great detail, mainly her arms and legs. The music began very soft classical. The setting was a room filled with chairs and tables (obstacles) and the walls were dark. The environment, movement and the dancers’ emotions created a feeling of sadness and weakness. The men played a major part in this performance as well. As the women ran around the room unsighted the men constantly moved objects out of her path. The women were confused the majority of the time in my opinion looking for love or the men to lean on. The women ran into walls until she eventually ran into a man’s arms only to be pulled away by some sort of supervisor. Still sightless the woman found her way back to the man’s arms continuously being pulled away and plumped down to the floor. The repeated the action countless times until it was instinctive. It created a feeling of togetherness and relief in a very confusing way. The setting of the women running around so franticly reminded me of a mental hospital their faces were very pulseless and plain, but their motions were very lifelong and drawn out. At one point a woman would completely undress herself and just lie on the table. Although very shocking it fit the natural theme. The women so disoriented would simply up rise and make her way to the man she loved all while her eyes …show more content…
I didn’t enjoy them as much. All of the settings were really unrelated. The setting seemed to have no meaning at all. The only logical understanding I could make was that no matter how displeasing the background was the dancer could still be so ravishing. Which was indeed true. All the dancers, although they showed no real facial expressions danced outstandingly. One woman was in a warehouse and she put meat in her shoes, but danced on point the entire time which was really beautiful. Her arms were long and soft. A couple danced on the side of the road and were very emotionally connected. The couple seemed to be truly in love and blended together well. Another woman in a public pool with a long flowing dress with red hair which was outstanding but awkward because of her background. My favorite one was of a woman with long beautiful hair in a long dress falling to her face on concrete only to be caught inches from the ground by a man. The woman fell with no apprehensiveness or shudder which was very intense for me to watch because she did it numerous