Dance Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place.…

— Margaret H'Doubler

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

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

— Stephen Boss

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

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

— Robert Gottlieb

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from.…

— Pina Bausch

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

— Ilana Mercer

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

— Martha Graham