«Ciane Fernandes provides the reader with a rich and comprehensive introduction to the work of Pina Bausch. Above all, her concise and well-delineated analysis addressing psychological and sociological aspects, opens my eyes as a choreographer and dancer to a broader understanding of Bausch's creative process and choreographies.» (Frank Händeler, Choreographer and Dancer)
«Due to her experience as both performer and academic, Fernandes is able to devote herself equally to both worlds: the emotionality of Bausch's nonverbal world of images and the theoretical verbal world provided here by Lacan, Foucault, and Susanne Langer. Through a highly analytical discourse, Fernandes succeeds in keeping sensibility, respect, honesty, and humility toward the world of movement and images. The author becomes herself a mediator between dance and theory, movement and words, aesthetics and analysis. The descriptions/explorations of scenes taken from different pieces of Pina Bausch provide the reader, who [may not have seen any of her pieces], with many possibilities to experience the artistic variety of the Wuppertaler Tanztheater.» (Excerpt from the Preface by Susanne Schlicher, Dramaturg; Coordinator of Department of Theater Directing, University of Hamburg; Author of 'TanzTheater. Traditionen und Freiheiten' (1987))
