Rosas Danst Rosas。

Rosas Danst Rosas

A film by Thierry De Mey (Belgium)

1997, 35 mm colour




A minimalism-dance masterpiece!

I have to say as a performer, this is the kind of piece I want to perform. Starts with four girls, from floor to the chairs and then occupy all the space by those simple movements, the hands through hair, frown, pull jumper over shoulder, turn head and even a sigh, composed to a dazzling phrasing like poem. Her purified, calm and chastening compositions make me not just enjoyed the moments but the aftertastes that I every time think of it. The strong feelings of the desire from female bodies and feminine gestures are evocative of some parts of Pina Bausch’s works but in a gentle or even more delicate way just like poem.

Regards to my research or would say my interest in costume. It’s a example that I think very successful for dance on screen. Very clear, simple on lines and style that easily connect to “dancer” seemed banal, but in fact, very effective on a kind of language using minima feminine elements in colours and style but provoked that part mainly by movements and compositions.

Minimalism have been using for applying to every kind of arts and designs for decades, even now some people feel fed up with it and started to crticise it, still, in terms of the shapes and ideas that contain so many things and keep in simple, can be fabulous and outstanding. Especially this piece was repertory in live performance in 80s’, but can be fantastic even nowadays.

Little things and ideas could now be totally new for performance. Just depend on how we apply them into our own pieces and if it is reasonable and do mean something that relate to what we want to express or not. At least, for me, a performance is a way that we communicate by using different languages. It is very important to look at what audiences feel and how much they get from us. From Rosas, I leanrt and inspired a lot and make me feel like to narrow down my research more, just like minimalism does!