Merce Cunningham Quotes
- Falling is one of the ways of moving.
- I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
- You have to love dancing to stick to it,
- There are no fixed points in space,
- The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.
- There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is…
- The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour…
- The only way to do it is to do it.
- You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls…
- My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.