Resolution 1, Pina Bausch Research and Analysis

Katherine has informed me that she would like her dance piece to use Pina Bausch styled choreography. In order to better understand this and help me within my role as AD and Choreographer I have looked into her dance style:

The Fall Dance - Pina Bausch


The style of dance is very contemporary and subtle. This piece in particular moves at a very steady slow pace slowly building up. This makes it seem much more deliberate and emotionally thoughtful which is how I would want to try and choreograph the Gunpowder mill dance. Repetition is also utilised here by having this one important key dance move which keeps being performed in different areas of the space. I am considering weather it is worth myself and Katherine choreographing small motifs such as this which can then be performed in various areas of the space to explore how it effects their movement and therefore reflecting the mental effects also. This piece has a lot of movement in terms of walking which again will be key in our choreography because it will allow us to move the dancers around the location in a very considered way.

Vollomond Part 1 - Pina Bausch



This piece agin start with a lot of similar techniques as before. It has slow deliberate movement which repeated again this one key motif. I feel like repetition will be key to getting across the main dance movements which display the most emotive information to the viewer. Also they are utilising props at the beginning which is an aspect Ive never thought of before. We may be able to find some key items which could really help the dancer have something to work with. Another approach would get them to almost use the location as if it were a prop coming back to the same spaces which are most intriguing and reacting certain movements inc certain spaces. Once this has built up it then goes into a much more contemporary fast paced dance which has many more technical elements. While doing this the dancer utilises high and low levels keeping it interesting. We will defiantly need to think about ways in which we can utilise low levels in our location especially with a dirt ground. IF we are unable to I feel like we could use some camera techniques which are higher to still make it feel this way. I like in the first segment of this video the way the two men interact with each other, almost mimicking but also fighting with each other. They get a really good balance of push and pull between to make it effective. It is this part of the dance I am most interested in because we are hoping to have two male dancer within this piece so we need to master a good balance between push and pull.

I feel like the main elements I take from these pieces and her other work in general is that we must focus on creating a deliberate emotionally  evoking piece which will rely heavily on pace as her work always has pace changes. We can build up with pace as well again similarly to her. We need to consider all levels and utilising them in the best ways possible and motifs will be key to explore the space in a way which builds on the themes.