Persons [ ] Your fragility is also your strength | Pina Bausch, 1940 – 2009
Pina Bausch, Folkwang School, 1960s
“I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.”
“Your fragility is also your strength.”
“I’m not interested in how people move; I’m interested in what makes them move.”
Walter Vogel, Pina Bausch, 1966
“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.”
“I didn’t want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn’t want to use.”
“I want to feel something, as a person. I don’t want to be bored.”
Pina Bausch, Blaubart (Bluebeard – While Listening To A Taped Recording Of Bela Bartok´s “Duke Bluebeard´s Castle), 1977
“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.”
“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”
Pina Bausch, performing the ‘Songs Of Encounter’ of the Folkwang Ballet, Academy of Arts, Berlin, 𝟣𝟫𝟪𝟥
“I’m searching for…the right images. And I have no words for that. But I know right away when I’ve got it. If I say, it will be like this, it would limit it somehow. I like very much to be completely open, and allow things to happen.”
Pina Bausch, Venice, 1983
“What I try to do is find a language for life.”
“Repetition is not repetition… The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end.”
“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.”
“Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.”
“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.”
Pina Bausch by KH. W. Steckelings
“For a long time I thought that the role of the artist was to shake the audience. Today I want to offer them what the world, which has become too hard, no longer gives them: moments of pure love.”
Pina Bausch, 1940 – 2009
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