Sad Samy asked Merce Cunningham, "What's the best piece of advice anyone has ever given you? How much did it cost to get it?" His response: "It didn't cost...
"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike." ~ Margot Fonteyn...
"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." ~ Alvin Ailey (learn more...
"Listened to the Leo Delibes' ballet Sylvia. In fact, I actually listened, because it is the first ballet, where the music constitutes not only the main, but...
"The work that I try to make -- Still/Here, Blind Date -- is all trying to deal with the poetic, the poetry of the world that I live in" ~Bill T. Jones in an...
"The resources of the body must be disciplined and developed so they can speak with truth and power." ~José Limón To learn more about José Limón, please...
"Preserve modern dance to know where it's been in order to know where it's going, and to encourage the participation of the audience." ~Alvin Ailey To learn...
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is...
"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love." ~ Ruth...
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things." ~ Twyla Tharp To learn more...
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms." ~ George Balanchine To learn more about George Balanchine, please see his...
"At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover...
"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." ~ Alvin Ailey To learn more...
"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written." ~Attributed...
"A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for." ~ Josephine Baker To learn more about...
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"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never...
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...Bodies never lie." ~ Agnes De Mille To learn more about Agnes De Mille, please see her...
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." - Martha Graham To learn more about Martha Graham, please...
"I will probably be seen as a traditionalist in 50 years' time, though today I might be seen as a maverick." ~ Mallika Sarabhai To learn more about her, please...
"(Choreography) is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting." ~ George Balanchine To learn...
"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no...
"Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time." ~Ginger Rogers To learn more about her, please see...
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as...
"The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let...
"The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may be light and frivolous, but by its very nature, it...
"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go...
"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing." ~ Doris Humphrey To learn more...
"Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're...
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