Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released… — Mrinalini Sarabhai Copy Share Image
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing… — Mithun Chakraborty Copy Share Image
So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry… — Rukmini Devi Arundale Copy Share Image
Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
In a musical, I believe that choreographers are under a great deal of pressure. There's not always the freedom to do what… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and… — Ron Fletcher Copy Share Image
The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to… — Gerald Arpino Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want.… — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
It's kind of become a journey about the dancers, but dancers are the reason why this show is so successful. They are… — Artem Chigvintsev Copy Share Image
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words;… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
![“Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.” quote by Andy Wilkinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/724/andy-wilkinson-41009_choreographers_some-things-need-to-be-a-song-some-thing_2684398.jpg)
