The Stranger

The late choreographer Pina Bausch was not just any great choreographer—not just technically demanding, not just an inspiration to earth’s most incredible dance artists, not just a maker of movements that seem completely normal and totally unfamiliar at the same time. Her combination of dance and theater was one of the 20th century’s great revelations. And Wim Wenders’s film tribute to her is visceral. It’s 3-D. You feel the dancers punch themselves in the gut, fall to the ground, dive through each other’s arms. This is in the running for the best dance movie ever made. (Cinerama; 2100 Fourth Ave; www.seattlecinerama.com; 10:45 am, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 pm; $13–$15) by Jen Graves

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