For Pina on 9/4/09
Pina was more interested
in the private, playful, revelatory and unconscious aspects
of movement and gesture,
in the child sleeping in all of us
that is capable of expressing itself quite eloquently,
provided you understand its language.
That’s what Pina could see better than anyone.
What Sigmund Freud could interpret in a person’s dreams,
Pina could read in their bearing or posture,
in how they throw their hair back or move their arms.
Wim Wenders on September 4, 2009
at the memorial ceremony for Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Opera House.
