Dance Quote by Twyla Tharp

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…

— Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille

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

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

— Twyla Tharp

I've been around dance all my life, which means I know what it's supposed to look like.

— Angela Rippon

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

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

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

— David Levithan

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

— Gertrude Stein

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't…

— Martha Graham

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look…

— Nicolas Cage