Critical Quote by Martha Graham

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

— Cecil Taylor

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

— Alvin Ailey

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner…

— Lyall Watson

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of…

— Edward T. Hall

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at…

— Curt Sachs

“Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept”

— Kathryn Craft

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character.…

— Mary Wigman

“Time jumps on speed, it cuts you out of the frame you are in and pastes you somewhere else without you knowing it. Speed…

— Steven LaVey

The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a…

— Johnny Flynn

A dance to the music of time.

— Anthony Powell