The composition gets to the heart of Bausch's dance by what it omits as much as by what it shows — by a framing that's as much an act of blocking out as of depicting.
For example, the film Land and Freedom is fantastic on the Spanish Civil War, but it is a very one-sided account by Ken Loach, omits as much as it includes and presents events very much through a particular prism.
But in a way it probably never intended -- by what it omits as much as by what it includes -- the documentary settles for asking its version of Rodney King's famously plaintive question: Can't we all just get along?
Some scenes, just by their tone and pacing, and by what they omit as much as by what they include, seem to take place in slow motion or under water or on another planet.
During the week on structure, I give them an impossible welter of information – seven different people, with twice that many interconnected dramas and conflicts – and ask them to sketch out a story, with the understanding that they can omit as much, or include as much, as they like.
You always have to omit as much as you include.
Newspapers omit adverbs, prepositions and words in headlines, youth omit as much as possible while texting and has created a new language on social media.
Keep as much leaves and omit as much stem as possible in the process.
It certainly never appeared in any of my school books (but then so much else about the atomic bombings was also omitted, as I detail in my new book).
Some artists have been omitted as a result.
