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)

The Guardian : "This morning, 30 June, Pina Bausch died, aged 68 – quickly, after a cancer diagnosis five days ago. Only two Sundays ago, she appeared on stage at the Wuppertaler Opernhaus. Theatre and opera simply wouldn't look the way they do today without her. We have lost dance's most visionary, influential figure, who redrew the map of the theatre arts" Dossier @ The Guardian ; Dossier @ El País ; Photo-gallery @ Público ; La virtuosité très personnelle de Pina Bausch @ Le Monde ; La Reine du théâtre dansé @ Arte.TV ;