The paper is a philosophical reflection from a survey of the academic productioncarried through in Brazil on the work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch. This survey wasaccomplished in digital platforms, comprising the period from 1988 to 2018, and included articlespublished in journals, book chapters, books, dissertations and theses. Thus, the present investigation intendsto inquire in which way such approaches are close to Bausch's work, whether directly or indirectly. Conceptsof image, parody and tale are used to reflect, with the input of Giorgio Agamben and Walter Benjamin'sphilosophy – in a collateral form –, on the paradoxes of the research at issue.