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dolorosa_12) wrote2024-04-12 05:19 pm
dolorosa_12) wrote2024-04-12 05:19 pm
Friday open thread: movement and music
Today'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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