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Pina

Fierce of intellect, creative vitality, essence.

Richard Partridge
Jun 13, 2023
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I appreciate you introducing us Wim, though now 
we’ve met, I feel I've known you all my life.

Pina. Fierce of intellect, creative vitality, essence.
I watch you dance a continuous movement, your life, 
trauma, with such intricate ease and beauty and 
unfathomable meaning, yet which each of us experience fully, 

enormously, secretly, through you. There is something here
that stirs those feelings, the ones we repress. 
Our dark hidden thoughts and emotions, which you lay
bare, unpacking them in front of us with the gestures of your whole

body and space beyond, reaching out, which you flood.
The company you keep are an extension of you, they make you 
vast, you the force, powering their devotion and expression, their
momentum and impulse to extract what we never knew was inside,

to the out. The tears fall as you map us, I can see clearly, 
but I cannot read it. I only know that this is what we all, alone, look like.

Movement. Kilburn. 2006. Nikon fm2


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Paul Backhouse
Writes COPING WITH CARING
Jun 14Liked by Richard Partridge

Exquisite. The Pina trailer doesn't do justice to the full wonderful haunting film with music of Jun Miyake.

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Jun 13Liked by Richard Partridge

What a wonderful lament to the art of creating movement and music that touches and lingers in the heart and head even years after the final curtain closes.

In honor of your beautifully written ode and all that went into the production of, “Pina”, the rest of the story is worth knowing :)

~ Pina ~

https://youtu.be/F-cV74Mq7KU

It is important to mention that the work of Pina Bausch influenced some of the world famous artists and performers such as David Bowie.

(I wonder if the singer, Sia, was influenced by Pina’s works when she hired Maddie Ziegler to dance in her video called , “Chandelier.”)

https://youtu.be/2vjPBrBU-TM

Thank you for continuing to share your heart through your written words and photographs with us Richard! ❤️ GBY and yours

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