Dance Quote by Samuel Goldwyn

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

Dancing is as old as love.

— Lucian

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Martha Graham

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

— Nastassja Kinski

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

— Twyla Tharp

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

— George Bernard Shaw

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.

— Vanessa Williams

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