Best 6 quotes of Pina Bausch on MyQuotes

I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

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

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

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.

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.

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.