Dance Theater Quotes by Alvin Ailey

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Alvin Ailey has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
• Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to…
• One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
• The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
• Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
• It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
• I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
• I always want to have more dancers in my company.
• No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.
• My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green.…
• I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.
• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

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