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Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their…

— Pete Carroll

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may…

— Lucinda Childs

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…

— Agnes de Mille

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever…

— Wayne McGregor

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for…

— Siobhan Davies

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I've got. If I'm in a performance and the lights go out, I glow…

— Mitzi Gaynor

Dancers should realise that they are really lucky. Dancing is not a job. It's people who are chosen. And you must realise that you…

— Sylvie Guillem

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

— Agnes de Mille

Dancers are trained to be disciplined to do what they are told, but I knew that time goes by, and I didn't want to…

— Sylvie Guillem

I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets…

— Vanessa Bell Calloway

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone…

— Alla Osipenko