“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It's like, say you're a dancer and you've been studying modern dance your whole life so you're used to a certain aesthetic… — Jlin Copy Share Image
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with… — Essence Atkins Copy Share Image
“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed… — Sally Kirkland Copy Share Image
I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
If I were to try to break into the world of modern dance, after the first few rejections the logical response might… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I did ballet, tap and modern dance - I loved Janet Jackson with a passion - and I was good enough to… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
