Absolute freedom Quote by Lincoln Kirstein

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

— Martha Graham

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

— Gerald Jonas

“Dance is a game of extreme emotions and freedom of the soul, where nothing is ever the same.”

— Sergei Polunin

“Why is dance beautiful? And the answer is: because it is non-free motion, because the whole profound meaning of dance lies precisely in its…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Full engagement and full relinquishment in every moment is the dance of dances.”

— Ross Hostetter

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

— Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, it's not my revolution.

— Emma Goldman

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

— Igor Youskevitch

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

— Evan Esar

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

— Emma Goldman

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

— Deborah Bull