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Dance Quotes by Merce Cunningham
- 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.
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