Pina is a celebration of what it is to inspire greatness, a passionate dance of life, love and inspiration that transcends its central figure to become something as timeless, and as hopeful, as the innovative and remarkable woman who inspired it.

A remarkable -- and likely enduring -- tribute to an artist committed to creating dance theater drawn from humanity's deepest physical and emotional reserves.

[An] utterly transfixing, exhilarating spectacle of bodies in motion.

Its haunting quality is a reminder that Bausch and her generation in Germany lived in the shadow of fascism.