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Dance Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
- 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…
- In Georgia, apparently, men are men and women are women - at least in their folk dance.
- Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
- The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
- Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
- The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
- Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than…
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- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov