When the young dancer Paulus Berensohn first saw a potter throw a cylinder in the late 1950s, he knew: “that’s the dance to learn”.
From then on, he swapped dancing on Broadway for dancing with clay. June 15 2017, at the age of 84, he exchanged the dance of life for the dance of eternity.
“I knew how to dance on a stage, but how was I going to dance in life?” (documentary “To Spring from the Hand”, 2013)
I got to know Berensohn only through his in 1972 published book “Finding one’s way with clay”, interviews and a documentary about his life. In it, he advocated a slower, mind-full and integrated approach to working with clay. He has had a big influence on me and many other ceramists.