"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...
"I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up with every item that went into the making of...
"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 want to create something in which people would recognize themselves and see the human condition, rather than the dancers focused on their physicality," ...
"Instead of this rather strange, clinical technique, which I had never questioned," he explains, "for the last six years I really have questioned it, and now I...
"If an artist knows `what he will produce, he's not a contemporary artist." ~ Jérôme Bel as quoted by the New York Times To read more from this article, see ...
"I am measuring the internal temperature of his work." ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov on his new exhibit of photographs of Merce Cunningham dances. Taken from the...
"For too long, a prejudice against intimacy has distorted some of the greatest dance idioms that ever expressed the soul of a culture. We seem to value dance...
"'Ballet doesn't have a choice, other than to let people in,' Ms. Stallings said. `It's been exclusive for so long. But dance started under the stars. That's...
"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...
"How else can I express myself besides doing eight shows a week?" Rob Asford, Choreographer for "Cry Baby" on his transition from dancer to choreographer. An...
"Any movement or non-movement on stage is dance." ~Sallie Wilson This ABT ballerina passed away at age 76. An article on her life is at the New York Times at...
"It's a challenge to find dancers interested and willing to go beyond the façade. Classical lines are as essential in dance moves from Guinea and using the...
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