Two from a dancing soul: Pina Bausch (2)

"Sometimes, we can only clarify something by confronting ourselves, with what we don’t know. And sometimes the questions we have bring us back to experiences which are much older, which not only come from our culture and not only deal with the here and now. It is, as if a certain knowledge returns to us, which we indeed always had, but which is not conscious and present. It reminds us of something, which we all have in common. This gives us great strength."
From "What Moves Me"Speech held by Pina Bausch on the occasion of the Kyoto Prize award ceremony in 2007.

PINA’S WORDS OF WISDOM
“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”  ― 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. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life — not existing forms of dance.”  ― Pina Bausch
"Dance begins where words end."  ― Pina Bausch
"Dance, Dance, Otherwise we are Lost." ― Pina Bausch
Pick one quotation and spend some quiet time with it.  Read it slowly, chew it diligently, taste it and feel it … Allow Pina’s words to read you perhaps, instead of your reading them.

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