Pina Bausch Quotes & Sayings

There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless. All you can do is hint at things. Words, too, can't do more than just evoke things. That's where dance comes in again. — Pina Bausch

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived. — Pina Bausch

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them. — Pina Bausch

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move. — Pina Bausch

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said. — Pina Bausch

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. — Pina Bausch

I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored. — Pina Bausch

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important. — Pina Bausch

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel. — Pina Bausch

I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. — Pina Bausch

Your fragility is also your strength. — Pina Bausch

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life
not existing forms of dance. — Pina Bausch

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end — Pina Bausch

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use. — Pina Bausch