"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...
"He was a dear friend and a great artist. Together we erased boundaries between the arts." ~Merce Cunningham speaking of stage designer Robert Rauschenberg,...
"[M]y works never have real endings," she said. "[T]hey just stop and fade out, because I don't believe there is any final solution to the problems of today....
"But my way of working is that the dancer and the musician are part of the same band. When you hear the music, you see the music." ~ Choreographer Dianne...
"…I'm casting a wider net as far as audience by putting the shows in different venues and by developing a board of directors and a committee who are helping...
"Studies have been done which show that 50 percent of our population over the age of 18 is involved in or goes to the arts," he said. "If we were able to form...
"'If I was black and blue,' she said, `it was Gene. And if it was Fred, I didn't have a scratch.'" ~ Cyd Charisse as quoted in her obituary in the NY Times To...
"How many `Nutcrackers' had he done? `Oh God, so many "Nutcrackers," ' he once said." Kermit Love, Costume Creator, passed away on Saturday. He designed ...
"'For the Olympics I'm trying to push things, make things more abstract, more international, to make sure things aren't too Chinese, not too many dragons or...
"'Everybody will have an idea of where it ought to go, but somebody has to step forward and provide the land and do the infrastructure.'" Nelson Wolff as...
"`You give all of your inspiration and everything you want to do to the dancers, and it's up to them to make it work, actually,' he said, speaking by phone...
"As Prokofiev put it, recalling his motivation to rework Shakespeare's tragedy and keep Romeo and Juliet alive: `Living people can dance; the dying cannot.'" ~...
"I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause." ~ Fred Astaire Never seen...
"I began to feel Europe was taking a lot from me and not giving me what I went there to find. The vitality of the civil-rights movement brought me back." ~...
"There is part of me that wonders, am I simply stealing other people's good ideas?" ~ Andrew Dinwiddie as quoted in Claudia la Rocco's article of The New York...
"We either have a ballet to taped music or canned music or perhaps no ballet at all, and we are very close to no ballet at all." ~ Margo McCann, interim...
"Security guards interrogated me similarly, and they also asked me to dance. Maybe I need to get used to dancing at airports." ~ Abdur-Rahim Jackson, as quoted...
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