Pina Bausch’s Vollmond is very unique. This piece has choreographers dancing in water and is a must see piece. The dance is made up of many movements physically and abstractly, these movements express certain meaning and have a purpose. After watching “Vollmond”, you will realize the true meaning behind the complex movements and motions of their hands and bodies. This meaning being the complexity of life and all the struggles but also the happiness of life and all its excitement that comes with it.
The title of Pina Bausch’s dance piece, Vollmond is a German word for Full Moon. Dance theatre is what Pina Bausch’s specialty was and it was this new type of performance that created a unique style of dance that was designed to express reality. …show more content…
First of all the water that the dancers were dancing in and splashing around literally represented life. Water is how life is created and it is present in every living organism. There would not be any life without water. It’s clear that water had a huge impact on the movements of the dancers. The movements of the dancers were similar to how the water was being splashed onto the boulder that was on the stage. Some moves were violent, similar to how the water was splashed but some moves were calm, similar to how the water formed a puddle on the floor. The piece started out with a man close to the edge of a cliff, the land looked totally dry and rocky with no sign of life. Then the piece transitioned to a dark stage, with only a huge boulder behind the dancer. The only source of light was in the middle of the stage, the light lit up the stage in a circular shape. This represents the moon shining down onto the dancers, hence the definition of the name Vollmond, meaning moon. The piece started off with smooth and slow moves but the dancer escalated quickly, all of a sudden the dancer started to have erratic moves. As the piece went on, more dancers started to come out, splashing each other with water in which appeared to be a very chaotic scene. Then the dancers were running though the water and rain: slipping, falling, jumping, and sliding through all the water. All this displayed the meaning of life, rough and
The title of Pina Bausch’s dance piece, Vollmond is a German word for Full Moon. Dance theatre is what Pina Bausch’s specialty was and it was this new type of performance that created a unique style of dance that was designed to express reality. …show more content…
First of all the water that the dancers were dancing in and splashing around literally represented life. Water is how life is created and it is present in every living organism. There would not be any life without water. It’s clear that water had a huge impact on the movements of the dancers. The movements of the dancers were similar to how the water was being splashed onto the boulder that was on the stage. Some moves were violent, similar to how the water was splashed but some moves were calm, similar to how the water formed a puddle on the floor. The piece started out with a man close to the edge of a cliff, the land looked totally dry and rocky with no sign of life. Then the piece transitioned to a dark stage, with only a huge boulder behind the dancer. The only source of light was in the middle of the stage, the light lit up the stage in a circular shape. This represents the moon shining down onto the dancers, hence the definition of the name Vollmond, meaning moon. The piece started off with smooth and slow moves but the dancer escalated quickly, all of a sudden the dancer started to have erratic moves. As the piece went on, more dancers started to come out, splashing each other with water in which appeared to be a very chaotic scene. Then the dancers were running though the water and rain: slipping, falling, jumping, and sliding through all the water. All this displayed the meaning of life, rough and