Pina Bausch Quotes

#1. Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

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

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

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#4. The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

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#5. 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.

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

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#12. Your fragility is also your strength.

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#13. I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.

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