Pina Bausch Quotes

I want to let my feet speak.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I love what a women embodies. I love our bodies; I love the way we communicate with our bodies. I love the way dance creates movement. It's art in motion.

I explained it when I danced it.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.

I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.