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Dancing Dreams

2010 · 92 min

A patient, intimate look at teenagers discovering vulnerability and grace through a year of demanding dance rehearsal.

Overview
The dance performance “Kontakthof” bears the unmistakable signature of Pina Bausch: it deals with forms of human contact, encounters between the sexes, and the search for love and tenderness, with all its attendant anxieties, yearnings and doubts. It is a dance about feelings, which always pose a big challenge – particularly for young people. Teenagers from more than eleven schools in Wuppertal went on an emotional journey that lasted almost a year. Every Saturday, forty students aged between fourteen and eighteen years of age took part in rehearsals that were led by Bausch-dancers Jo-Ann Endicott and Bénédicte Billiet and intensely supervised by Pina Bausch herself.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • love
  • friendship
  • art
Places
  • school
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism9
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Anne Linsel, Rainer Hoffmann
Written by
Anne Linsel
Starring
Pina Bausch, Jo-Ann Endicott, Bénédicte Billiet
Cinematography
Rainer Hoffmann
Runtime
92 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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