American Dance Quotes
- When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
- DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
- We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the… — Martha Graham
- I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and… — Gene Kelly
- Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her… — Robert Gottlieb
- You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a… — Marina Abramovic