Pina Bausch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Lost
I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.
-- Pina Bausch

#Moving #People #Not Interested
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

#Believe #Movement #Departure
I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
-- Pina Bausch

#Moving #Dancing
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

#Feelings #Trying #Pieces
Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
-- Pina Bausch

#Different #Action #Ends
Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.
-- Pina Bausch

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

#Moving #Scared #Speak
I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.
-- Pina Bausch

#Want #Use #Movement
Your fragility is also your strength.
-- Pina Bausch

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

#Moving #People
I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
-- Pina Bausch

#Bored #Want #Feels

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