"... Bausch’s stiletto says other things, too. It approximates ballet’s pointe shoe in the way it cocks the ankle and ups the arch, yet stiffens the women’s (and sometimes the men’s) connection to the floor. It grounds the stage in a social milieu—the offstage, adult world—yet flirts with fetish, that hairy underworld intimated in the unshaven legs that rise out of those high heels. When Bausch dancers kick off their pumps, which they wear with the confidence of Nazi commandants, they bump down with a harummph, stripped of some erotic power, culturally undressed. Their ballgowns crumple at the hem like musty old mansions. A Bausch evening, you realize, takes place in those three to four inches between nature and nurture, good and evil, and just about any other dichotomy one cares to name. It’s a tight crawlspace."
The New Criterion
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Telegraph: The mighty Pina Bausch
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