America Quote by Martha Graham

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

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

— Deborah Bull

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I think dancing was a way of showing your femininity and, through the years, your strength, because it's a male-dominated industry.

— Shirley Ballas

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

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

— Twyla Tharp

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender…

— Twyla Tharp

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

— Nazanin Boniadi

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

— Haley Lu Richardson

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive,…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

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

— Sergei Polunin