Tanz der Vergänglichkeit - Danza della fugacità
Dance of impermanence
Pisa and its Leaning Tower are the symbol of the international programme for the assessment of pupils – and, not only as concerns results in Italy, of a cultural decline and loss of learning. Until the tower was reopened in 2001, its future was uncertain and there seemed to be no end to its plant-like fugacity.
The donkey (front right) with its rider can be seen as a metaphor for the stupidity and sameness relayed by the mass media. Its increasing lack of intelligence, its mediocrity, its contentedness with simple answers. There is still hope in the donkey's stubbornness. The donkey symbolizes, moreover, the male sexual libido, which can be fertile but also destructive; it symbolizes might, debauchery and lust.
A flamenco dancer (on the left) with her puffed sleeves and flounced dress turns with the rhythms that accompanied the Spanish in their struggles for independence. Flamenco, the unconventional or anti-conventional dance as a call to defy fugacity. A crisis cannot be fought with the same measures that have brought us to it.
The sun (upper right) is shining and could light a way (out). The other areas, in white, represent a small but still existing space for new things – freedom. Let's take hold of freedom to get away from this asininity.
In "The town musicians of Bremen" it is the donkey who takes the initiative and shows the other animals a prospect for the future with the famous line “We can find something better than death anywhere”. This may be an invitation to do something instead of letting impermanence do its work without meeting any resistance.
Dance!
(text: Katrin Walter simply.walter@yahoo.com; translation: Anna Ambrosini, Roma, immortalpalindrome@yahoo.it
Pisa and its Leaning Tower are the symbol of the international programme for the assessment of pupils – and, not only as concerns results in Italy, of a cultural decline and loss of learning. Until the tower was reopened in 2001, its future was uncertain and there seemed to be no end to its plant-like fugacity.
The donkey (front right) with its rider can be seen as a metaphor for the stupidity and sameness relayed by the mass media. Its increasing lack of intelligence, its mediocrity, its contentedness with simple answers. There is still hope in the donkey's stubbornness. The donkey symbolizes, moreover, the male sexual libido, which can be fertile but also destructive; it symbolizes might, debauchery and lust.
A flamenco dancer (on the left) with her puffed sleeves and flounced dress turns with the rhythms that accompanied the Spanish in their struggles for independence. Flamenco, the unconventional or anti-conventional dance as a call to defy fugacity. A crisis cannot be fought with the same measures that have brought us to it.
The sun (upper right) is shining and could light a way (out). The other areas, in white, represent a small but still existing space for new things – freedom. Let's take hold of freedom to get away from this asininity.
In "The town musicians of Bremen" it is the donkey who takes the initiative and shows the other animals a prospect for the future with the famous line “We can find something better than death anywhere”. This may be an invitation to do something instead of letting impermanence do its work without meeting any resistance.
Dance!
(text: Katrin Walter simply.walter@yahoo.com; translation: Anna Ambrosini, Roma, immortalpalindrome@yahoo.it
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