Old Age Day by Day February 11, 2012

I was talking to my older daughter yesterday about the movie "Pina" by Wim Wenders, which my friend and I saw Thursday.  You know that expression "It took my breath away"?  That is how I felt after the film.  It is such a beautiful homage to a great choreographer.  I have never seen such dancing and pieces live as I saw on the screen.  And rather than having any biography of her, the narration was spare and unrevealing, leaving her dances, her artistic creations, to speak for her.  And speak they did.  Of a consummate artist in collaboration with her dancers, creating together an event shattering, joyous, soulful and as expansive as the gamut of human experience.  The audience was frequently making little sounds of shock and awe.  She pushed it out of us, this recognition and engagement.  I cannot recommend this film enough, because it amazingly manages to show us what we become when we let life flow through us and express something larger and grander than we feel we have the capacity for.  It is hope.  Hope of who we can be and forgiveness and understanding for who we are.