Friday open thread: movement and music
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dolorosa_12Today's open thread prompt should hopefully be a fun one: what are your favourite pieces of audiovisual storytelling that rely mainly on the interplay of music, and the movement of human bodies?
This is not only about dance sequences, although of course your answers may be dance sequences if you like. Film, TV, theatre, dance performances, music videos, and any other format you can think of are all welcome.
Hard mode (optional): don't pick things from works that are solely or majority dependent on movement and music to tell the story (i.e. dance performances, musicals).
I'll stick a handful of answers behind the cut to get things started.
Of course I have to start things off with the two big dance sequences from Babylon Berlin:
And, because I was feeling self-indulgent, this inevitably led me to Lola Rennt (really, my answer for this question should just be 'Tom Tykwer'):
(Apologies for the poor video quality here)
More visual than aural, but the fight scene among the bamboo in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
and this one:
But honestly, my answer above all others for this will always be the banquine act from Cirque du Soleil's Quidam show. It's just an exquisite piece of aural and visual storytelling, and when I finally saw it live in person, I cried.
What about you?
This is not only about dance sequences, although of course your answers may be dance sequences if you like. Film, TV, theatre, dance performances, music videos, and any other format you can think of are all welcome.
Hard mode (optional): don't pick things from works that are solely or majority dependent on movement and music to tell the story (i.e. dance performances, musicals).
I'll stick a handful of answers behind the cut to get things started.
Of course I have to start things off with the two big dance sequences from Babylon Berlin:
And, because I was feeling self-indulgent, this inevitably led me to Lola Rennt (really, my answer for this question should just be 'Tom Tykwer'):
(Apologies for the poor video quality here)
More visual than aural, but the fight scene among the bamboo in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:
and this one:
But honestly, my answer above all others for this will always be the banquine act from Cirque du Soleil's Quidam show. It's just an exquisite piece of aural and visual storytelling, and when I finally saw it live in person, I cried.
What about you?
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Date: 2024-04-12 05:10 pm (UTC)Both the US and UK versions of The Singing Detective have the characters lip-synching to Tin Pan Alley records and it somehow works amazingly.
https://youtu.be/fVU0F19IEjk?feature=shared
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Date: 2024-04-13 02:36 pm (UTC)The video you've linked is blocked from viewing in the UK, but it sounds incredible!
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Date: 2024-04-12 11:57 pm (UTC)For hard mode, I think it must be the final battle between Zuko, Katara, and Azula from the original Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's beautifully animated, beautifully scored, and a great character piece.
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Date: 2024-04-13 02:39 pm (UTC)That battle scene from ATLA is one of my favourite moments in the whole series — it's beautiful to watch, and, as you say, it does such incredible character work with very minimal dialogue. I find it more significant in terms of the story it tells about the characters' development than Aang's concurrent big showdown with Ozai.
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