Portrait of the Choreographer Pina Bausch

Old Masters
In contemporary motion,

Her work

But not a work of hers

I was in good company

As troubled by the notion,

Same company

New director

Same rigor...same devotion

Why...

Or should they even cease

I heard she was resting

Yet here is a new piece...

Written clearly across tickets and cast

There was her name

Would I have otherwise ever believed?

Here was his work of hers’

And there was I

Seated...in the row of the bereaved.