Pina Bausch: 1940-2009.
I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.
Pig’s Leg; Raul Gutierrez.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Love comes to me
Love comes and all
It’s my hands, my heart, my lips
And that is all.
When the fever hits on your forehead
And trusive mice chew up your bed
And you call on God and God is dead
Love comes to you
Love comes to you.
“ For every step we took into the kingdom of fate, we also kept looking back — to see whether we were truthful even when unobserved.
Walter Benjamin
“ The essence of man is discontent, divine discontent. It is a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“ Then we are only really thinking when the subject on which we are thinking cannot be thought out.
Goethe
“Let’s go and talk them out of it.”
The Odessa Steps Sequence, 1925.
11-year-old Nora Foss.
“Maybe I’ve been here before. I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor.”
She’s like a glass figurine. She doesn’t even speak English and somehow that makes the song as its written even more obviously heartbreaking.
A youtuber commenter says:
This is an inappropriate choice in words and subtext for a child to sing. Not only the sexual context where it actually is about the sexual act, intercourse, but the world weary mixture of the sacred and profane elements of love. If you juxtapose the mature, jaded, world weary composer with this young child, it is obscene.
As if children don’t know all about the sacred and profane. As if that reconciliation isn’t childhood.
