PINA BAUSCH

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

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

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

Your fragility is also your strength.

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

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

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

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

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.

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

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

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

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.

What I try to do is find a language for life.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

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

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

Your fragility is also your strength.

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

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

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 interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.