Composer Quote by Twyla Tharp

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

— George M. Cohan

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

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what…

— Theodora Goss

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

— Jack Waters

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing.…

— Yoko Ono

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like…

— Tatiana Maslany

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Jamake Highwater

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most…

— Laura Linney

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

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