Abstract Quote by Justin Peck

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in…

— Arlene Croce

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.

— Robert Gottlieb

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

— Anonymous

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

— Ira Glass

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

— Lisa Yuskavage

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament…

— Kevin Wilson

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all…

— Pina Bausch

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to…

— Susan Stroman

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the…

— Jose Limon