Pina Bausch Quotes

• 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, Dancing, Technique

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

  Pina Bausch

  Moving, People, Not Interested

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• Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

  Pina Bausch

  Dancing, Lost

  "Pina", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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

  Pina Bausch

  Different, Action, Ends

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• I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

  Pina Bausch

  Moving, Scared, Speak

  "Step-by-step guide to dance: Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal" by Sanjoy Roy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2010.

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• Your fragility is also your strength.

  Pina Bausch

  Fragility

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• 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, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

  Pina Bausch

  Heart

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• The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

  Pina Bausch

  Important

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• I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.

  Pina Bausch

  Moving, Dancing

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• I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.

  Pina Bausch

  Moving, People

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• I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

  Pina Bausch

  Use, Movement, Want

  "Pina Bausch" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

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

  Pina Bausch

  Bored, Want, Feels

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