More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such… — Akram Khan 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 get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to… — Angel Corella Copy Share Image
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the… — Cholly Atkins 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
Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive. — Ron Fletcher Copy Share Image
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku 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
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
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one… — Martha Graham 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
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
Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's… — John Parish 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
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
