Avant garde Quote by Twyla Tharp

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

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why…

— Robert Wilson

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

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

— Maurice Bejart

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance…

— Martha Graham

“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us…

— Jennifer Homans

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to…

— Susan Stroman

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

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from.…

— Pina Bausch