Accounts Quote by Gene Kelly

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.

— Ruthie Henshall

In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…

— Agnes de Mille

There are more real dancers now. It used to be that they would dub in the taps and obscure the lack of technique with…

— Vera-Ellen

“As an American, the first thing I noticed about British dancers
was their intellectual response to movement. In countries like Israel, the USA,
Australia and South…

— Robert Cohan Founder of Famous US Choreographer

We've never seen what it is that companies go through, what it is that dancers go through on a daily basis, financially, physically, mentally,…

— Neve Campbell

There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to live in.…

— Sergei Polunin

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

— Martha Graham

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to…

— Kyle Abraham

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille