Dance Quote by Merce Cunningham

“Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.”

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“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.”

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The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

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I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

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“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on…

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My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

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You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

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I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

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Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

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You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is…

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I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't…

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