Audience Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even…

— Martha Graham

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

— Merce Cunningham

As I currently explore things like augmented and virtual reality, I constantly bring us back to actual bodies in space, real dancers that have…

— Saya Woolfalk

We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of…

— George Balanchine

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion…

— Gene Kelly

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much…

— George Balanchine

Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the…

— Dorothy Richardson

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at…

— Curt Sachs

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept”

— Kathryn Craft

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

— Jamake Highwater