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[|Jacob and Jill - Live to Dance (Save Me)] [|Shore Thing - Live to Dance] [|Jacob and Jill - Live to Dance] = = =**//__Great Choreographers__//**=

I find Pina Bausch's choreography beautiful with a flow to the entire piece despite the conflicting emotions. Even when a dance move is used to shown conflicting emotion, it is executed with such perfection that it really does look like the entire string of dance moves is really just one. However, that is not to say that I do not have things that I do not like about Bausch's work. At times, the repetition seems to overwhelm the piece, almost causing the observer to stop paying attention to the dancer, thinking that the same thing will occur over and over. In Cafe Muller, I think that the repetition almost got out of hand. I wanted to grown every time the camera panned back to the male lead. There are some other problems with how the dance was captured. For instance, in the experience I've had seeing and participating in dance, everything on the stage and every dancer in view is part of whatever part of the story you are telling at any given moment. This being said, having the camera trained on a specific dancer can take away from the story because you could very well be missing a key element to the story if you aren't looking at the whole picture. Each dancer and each movement they make should contribute to the story. A dance such as one of Bausch's choreographed routines should never be seen in bits and pieces, but with every bit of what it was meant to be seen as. All of her choreography was made to flow together, so without seeing one, the other may not make sense.

**__DANCE__**
I have been a dancer for longer than I can remember. I don't know a time where dance wasn't a part of my life. One of the oddest memories I have of dancing was five years ago. My sister had been pregnant and my mom and I were in the dance recital on June 4th, 2006. As we're preparing to leave home to go to the recital, my sister, Paige, went into labor with my niece, Keira. I honestly thought mom was going to freak. She went to the hospital with my sister and nearly missed the whole recital, but luckily she didn't miss either.

[|www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElvPKPOFW40&feature=related]

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