So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't… — Alonzo King 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 dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
“Self-doubt has to be eradicated. If you plant a seed, you don’t dig it up to see if it’s growing. You plant it. You… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope...… — Alonzo King 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 dancers who… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
