Orphee et Eurydice by Pina Bausch (Christoph Willibald Gluck,composer)

Another amazing excerpt from the 2008 Paris production of Pina Bausch's 1975 choreography to Gluck's opera of Orpheus and Eurydice. "Choreography" has become too small a word for me when describing Bausch's accomplishment with this opera. This is a triumph on every level that actually surpasses the opera itself when in almost every case in history opera serves as nothing more than a Mephistopheles for the performance artist, literally the devil. Everyone thinks they can interpret opera with dance or some kind of movement when opera is already a full work, it's beyond full, it's bloated. It seldom stops when it should and is often more than anyone needs...all opera is done in 2 hours yet none are less than 2 and a half.
When choreographers and performace artists play with opera, it's like a child playing with matches in a barn while having an epileptic fit during the worst drought in 30 years: no good can come of it. But one pulled it off. Pina Baush was one of the most complicatedly understated artists of our time (that made sense even though it sounded like it didn't). I didn't get her for a long time. I liked Cafe Muller because I thought it was like a Saturday Night Live sketch and compared to MacMillan and Bejart and everyone who butchered Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in the absence of Nijinsky's 70 year long lost choreography, I thought Bausch's was the least ridiculous. But it wasn't until I found her work to "Orpheus" that I was struck by her genius. Now I can see her other work more clearly. Maybe you see it too.
Unfortunately the quality of this clip sucks. AND the shot should have been wider because there is so much more happening on the stage than what was filmed. I looked everywhere for something better. Nothing. Best I could find.

[@GabrielPadecopeo]

❤Maravilloso, espléndido ❤Arte de alto nivel de calidad❤

[@fatovamingus]

Oh! Watch the whole thing!
ruclips.net/video/Istl2NSMs54/видео.html

[@fatovamingus]

I FORGOT how cool this is

[@01103mv]

@fatovamingus
of course it is :)

[@fatovamingus]

@wbarco This is beyond ballet though, right? :)

[@tylerfarrow5399]

hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahhahahhahahahahahahah

[@Miguel53de]

What's so funny about it?