Pina

“Another film that has been with me for a really, really long time is Pina by Wim Wenders, and it changed the way I saw dance. It changed the way I saw Performance. It kind of made me the performer I am today. So this was a really, really huge film for me. I think I discovered it when I was about twenty-four or twenty-five, and it kind of changed everything.”

“Pina. The thing about Pina Bausch is that her dance theater troupe was kind of like... Kind of like a cult, but in a good way. It’s a group of people that were so intensely committed to a singular vision from her, who was revolutionary. She’s really, really, really changed the whole game in terms of dance and dance theater. I got to see two of her pieces in Brooklyn Academy of Music before she passed away, so I’m really glad about that.”

“Oh, oh, I forgot I have one more film. I like Wim Wenders’s Pina. I still can remember seeing it, once again at the Telluride Film Festival in a world premiere or in a North American premiere, and just feeling as I did as a kid running out of the theater and running down the street in joy. Somebody had just put a second stage on my rocket. And that’s what we look for. Pina by Wim Wenders. Wim, who I also know, we love you.”

“This movie has inspired me to no end Pina I don't know this really put it in your bag okay Wenders documentary on Pina Bausch oh the incredible choreographer it sounds like it's going to be a dance documentary but it's like it I don't know it's so moving.”