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- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 24 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 24 m
Summary An inside look at one of the most innovative dance companies, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. This documentary follows the development of the dance from its conception, through the process of improvisation and composition, to the premiere and beyond. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Mirra Bank
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 24 m
- 2002
- Not Rated
- First Run Features
- 1 h 24 m
Last Dance
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Summary An inside look at one of the most innovative dance companies, the Pilobolus Dance Theatre. This documentary follows the development of the dance from its conception, through the process of improvisation and composition, to the premiere and beyond. (First Run Features)
Directed By: Mirra Bank
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
66
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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One of the thrills of the movie is watching the improvisatory trial-and-error process as the dancers explore psychological themes, contorting their graceful, amazingly limber bodies into visual representations of relationships and emotional states.
Bank's discursive but oddly riveting documentary, Last Dance, offers a glimpse of what was probably the most important, and conceivably the most bitterly contested, collaboration in Pilobolean history.
While it's not a blistering look behind the scenes, Last Dance gives a fuller picture of the creative process than most others of its ilk.
The real highlight is watching the dancers as they progress from their first, tentative improvisations to the final, complex performance.
An illuminating glimpse into what goes on in the dance studio.
Last Dance is riveting when it focuses on the challenges of crossing a generational divide --The movie loses steam toward the end.
Displays, in all its discomfort and occasional fruitfulness, the trouble inherent in aesthetics by committee.
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Awards
San Francisco International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
