ABSTRACT
Whenever I mention to people in the performing arts that I am researching and writing about Pina Bausch, the first question they ask is how she does what she does. It’s hard enough to describe precisely what it is that she does, but theater and dance artists can see it; they see something different in her works, something provocative that subtly changes the ground of performance practice. Still, the question lingers, “How does she do that?”
