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In the newSuspiria, dance is an act of both life and death.
When I read this scene I said, Oh, my god.
Oh and also, it had to look entirely reactive and spontaneous instead of academic or too square.
Elena is such a strong dancer and performer that she could really create all the violence within herself.
Its really also interesting, because Medusa is one of the three Gorgons, and inSuspiriathere is theThree Mothers.
So, there was also a metaphor.
(It also echoes the line drawing we see briefly in Patricias journal.)
The more refined and exacting aspects of the earlier dances give way to something restless and raw.
The dancers previously bound by ropes are now naked and wildly free of their bindings.
The ever-present sound of breathing which actually served as a substitute for percussion duringVolk reaches a frantic crescendo.
Its already in the audition of Susie.
The Sabbath is also the culmination of Susies battle with gravity.
That pull eventually leads Susie to the Room of the Feasts for the Black Sabbath.
They are entranced but they are not conscious of what they are doing, said Jalet.
At one point the dancers become furniture in a way.
One of those decorations is a human pyramid that unfolds startlingly at the beginning of the ritual.
Given the setting, manufacturing a sense of madness wasnt hard.
The Sabbath was one of the last scenes they shot after months of production.
It was December in the mountains.
It was really wild, Jalet said.
It was a tense moment.
