"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...
"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did." ~ Harold Nicholas To learn more about the...
"I'd rather have a small budget than a lot of stress and uncertainty. Now I can plan. And know that when I earn money, it stays with us. We can invest it in...
"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no...
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. " ~ Agnes de Mille To learn more about de Mille, please...
"Ballet is important and significant...yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure." ~ George Balanchine To learn more about Balanchine, please see his article at...
"I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an...
"They're liking to do tricks. They think doing 25 pirouettes is ballet. What I try to teach them ... is that ballet is art. Ballet is not a circus." ~ Nina...
"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written." ~ Ted Shawn...
"But I do nothing that I don't like, such as "inventing" up to the arty or "down" to the corny. I happen to relish a certain type of corn. What I think is the...
"Well, I think that no matter what I'm doing, whether reading a book or looking at a painting, I'm translating it in terms of what I know, which is abstract...
"I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their...
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words." ~Ruth St. Denis To learn more about St. Denis,...
It is that time of year again to be thinking about how to spend your summer! SADU is pleased to present the calendar of upcoming auditions for summer...
"I always write a scenario first, even if it is a scenario for an emotion." ~Michael Kidd This edition of SA in Motion includes announcements, performances, ...
"All aspects of dance should aim at the evolution of mankind and for refining individuals. So, dance is used for cleansing of the self and reflecting the...
To all of our subscribers, Unfortunately, my computer's second hard drive has overheated and I am in the process of obtaining a new laptop. I hope to be able...
"We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery,...
"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...