America Quote by Shana Alexander

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited…

— Jack Anderson

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects…

— Arlene Croce

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

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

— Martha Graham

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected…

— Tino Sehgal

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

— Nastassja Kinski

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers…

— Gene Kelly

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 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