Pina Bausch Quotes

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.