Pina is said to have revolutionized ballet. The first one combined dance with other arts: acting, music, song, creating a new genre - dance theatre. What was most remarkable, however, was her method of working. She used to say, "I'm looking for people who dance, not dancers." During rehearsals, sitting in a cloud of cigarette smoke behind a table full of notes, she asked the dancers strange questions: What did you feel when you first fell in love? How did you imagine love? What made you laugh or scare you as a child? Her questions concerned the dancers' personal experiences. Because for Pina, the most important thing was to appeal to their own emotions, and only then she asked to find the right expression for these emotions in movement. The dancers looked for solutions themselves, often in secret. And when they found it, Pina made adjustments, had it repeated, and finally the script was born. It was as much improvisation as murderous training. It did not impose anything, rather it inspired, released previously unknown energy. This made dancers, who usually wander from one company to another, stay with her for decades. Many performed even in their fifties. Because Pina also preached the thesis that everyone and at any age can dance. One of her dancers, Russian Andrei Berezin, described the specificity of working with Pina in this way: “The most important things in her ballet are feelings, and not as in traditional ballet – the geometry of the body and the classical ideal of beauty created as if against man and his nature. With us, technology follows the soul – not the other way around.” She herself said about her work: "I start without any tools, without any weapons except the feeling inside, for which there is no appropriate word or image." And in another: "The steps originate elsewhere - they do not originate in the legs. We work out the traffic along the way. Gradually, we build short dance sequences that we remember. In the past, to induce a state of fear or panic, I would start with movement, avoiding questions. Now I start with questions."