60s dance moves1/13/2024 In the following attempt to assemble cinema’s 50 greatest dance scenes, I prioritized breadth: of era, of genre, of tone, of country. ![]() It’s no great stretch to say that dance must be included in whatever expansive definition one might form of “human nature.” It predates language itself, some scholars clocking its advent around 3300 B.C. Dance torments, soothes, stimulates, and challenges, often managing many at once. In the selections below, characters move as a plea for help, as an elated outburst, as a rebellion against authoritarianism, and as a prelude to murder. Even as the rest of the film rapidly fades from my memory, I can clearly recall the scene in Michael Haneke’s Happy End featuring a karaoke rendition of Sia’s “Chandelier” with an emphatic onstage accompaniment, if only for its extraordinary banality. At the Markos Dance Academy, movement is the essence of life.ĭance can be an intense communion between the mind and body, though it doesn’t have to be. For the sinister higher-ups, their charges’ perspiration serves as nourishment. (Perhaps it has something to do with all the meat hooks?) The Damien Jalet–choreographed dances stand out as the most gripping sections in the film’s dense two-and-a-half hours, in particular the fiendish group piece titled “Volk.” Johnson and her company, draped in red cords, cycle through razor-edged poses metaphorically - and then literally - coursing with brutality. Dakota Johnson stars as an American ballerina attending a prestigious academy in pre-reunification Berlin, tutored by severe instructors giving her a faintly Satanic vibe. This weekend, Luca Guadagnino’s maximalist reworking of Italian horror classic Suspiria jetés into wide release. ![]() ![]() Photo-Illustration: Emily Denniston and Maya Robinson/Vulture
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