Modern Dance Quotes
17 quotes by 13 authors
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at…
— Nicolas Cage
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
— Nastassja Kinski
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Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
— Paul Robeson
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DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play…
— Alexa Chung
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my…
— Sally Kirkland
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Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this…
— Richard Ouzounian
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If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I…
— Mark Morris
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For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own…
— Paul Robeson
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
— Twyla Tharp
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it…
— Twyla Tharp
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Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
— Martha Graham
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I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.
— Deborah Bull
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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
— Twyla Tharp
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The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
— Robert Gottlieb
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The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
— Robert Gottlieb
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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
Who Wrote These Modern Dance Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 17 Modern Dance Quotes as follows: