FixWhatUSee

Nos últimos meses perdemos Pina Bausch e Merce Cunningham, dois gigantes. Alguém sabe o que vai acontecer às obras com que mudaram o mundo? Obrigatório o artigo de Vanessa Rato no Ipsilion, edição de hoje do Público . Mas... já alguem tinha colocado a questão: Who will protect the legacies of Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham? Instructions for Survival : Devised and performed by Charlie Morrissey, Scott Smith in collaboration with Philip Jeck and Michael Mannion.

A must read article by Judith Mackrell, at The Guardian : What happens to dance once the artist who made it is gone? To put the enormity of this challenge into some context, you only have to imagine a situation where the paintings of Rauschenberg or Bacon were taken down from galleries as soon as those artists died; where the novels of Saul Bellow were removed from the bookshelves, or the music of Stravinsky was silenced. No other art form would accept for a second that death implied the possible death of an artist's oeuvre. But what makes this a genuine issue for modern dance is the umbilically close connection between most choreographers, their companies and their work. Modern dance faces urgent decisions about what to do with their legacies. Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940 – June 30, 2009) Merce Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009)

" For many, he had simply been the greatest living artist since Samuel Beckett. He was American modern dance’s equivalent of Nijinsky: the long neck, the animal intensity, the amazing leap. In old age, when he could no longer jump and when his feet were gnarled with arthritis, he remained a rivetingly dramatic performer, capable of many moods. With his collaborator and life partner John Cage, Mr. Cunningham’s most celebrated achievement was to have dance and music composed independent of each other. His choreography showed that dance was principally about itself, not music, while often suggesting that it could also be about many other things as well. Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died Sunday night. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan. " from The New York Times Also: The Guardian Obituary Merce Cunningham - Pond way