CITY LIGHTS.

Pina Bausch, the queen of European dance theatre, is a master of the excruciated-artist interview. One journalist, Valerie Lawson, of the Sydney Morning Herald, reported that Bausch never answers a direct question about her work. All you can hope for is that, as she chain-smokes her Camels, she will, like the Sibyl, utter some dark clue about her art or, failing that, say what anguish it puts her through. "It's so terrible, horrible, you go down, down, down," she told Lawson. "It all takes so much strength. I'm so fragile. It's emotional." She doesn't know how long she can go on.

Such remarks must be taken in context (most artists go through hell--some are more ...