Choreographer Quotes by Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from.…

— Pina Bausch

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all…

— Pina Bausch

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch

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

— Pina Bausch