If there is one choreographer who was most frequently mentioned on in the past 30 years, it has been certainly Pina Bausch. As we know, she was the most influential German artist, who was a leading role in the development of a new form of the art﹣Dance Theater. In her excellent dance, Cafe Muller, Bausch displayed social and emotional damages that caused by the holocaust in Germany. The story was based on her actual childhood through experiencing her father’s life working with his cafe, during a period of war. In this case, Bausch definitely shown inadequate attempts between men and women to establish relationships by using her body as a political and social messenger in the Dance Theater style.
The film of the dance, Cafe Muller, …show more content…
At 08:10, Bausch put her right hand over her heart. It seemed like she got a sudden shot and then fell to the ground. Bausch was attempting to pick herself up, however, she was not powerful enough to do it. The man became impatient because of her fumbling; he watched over and made a space for Bausch, but he did not reach out to help her when she suffered. Therefore, Bausch repeatedly rolled back and forth. Such movements hurt audiences’ hearts deeply by revealing a limit, which was similar to a possibility of violence or …show more content…
Pay attention to the piece and then you will know.” Many of her earlier dance pieces had been intimately connected to gender clashes, the inability of men and women to get close to each other, despite their great needs for love. Like Cafe Muller, it used expressionist movements which had always been associated with social background in the hope of approaching radical changes in humankind and obtaining a better world. For instance, in Cafe Muller, a woman dancer kept using her back to hit against a wall. Another woman, unconscious or blind, wandered forward and a man removed tables that blocked in her way. A man controlled the body movements of two lovers, therefore, they consistently kissed, embraced, and lifted. Their complicated motions were changing in an incredible speed, which promoted the development of plots in the dance. The audiences followed plots, and they were affected by characters’ emotions too. This dance revealed our potential physical needs that were covered by traditional gender roles. Also, Bausch used her attractive vocabulary in her dance to transform insights into the affective. In fact, Bausch expended on the distance between men and women by portraying women as unusual behaviors in Cafe Muller. For example, there was one scene that the man held Bausch in his arms then dropped her, whether through tiredness, carelessness and cruelty. A question was raised, why was it necessary for women