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"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development."

"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

Experience, People, Development, Help

3

"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."

"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

Life, Age, Control, Discipline

3

"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."

"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

3

"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."

"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

Children, School, Voice

3

"I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home."

"I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Home, Time, Road

3

"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."

"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

Love, Music, Motivation, Fact

3

"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."

"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."

George Murphy, American Dancer

3

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven."

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven."

Josephine Baker, French Dancer

Strength, Heaven, Prayer

3

"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."

"We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

America, Artists, Europe, World

3

"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."

"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Building, Friends, Help, Needs

3

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

"A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Gardening, Gardens

3

"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

Mark Morris, American Dancer

3

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

3

"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."

"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Talent, People, Development, Chicago

3

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

Isadora Duncan, American Dancer

3

"I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high."

Graeme Murphy, Australian Dancer

3

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Experience, Optimism, Cynicism, Old

3

"I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years."

"I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Life, Company, Want, Years

3

"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"

"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"

George Chakiris, American Dancer

Open, Restaurants

3

"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science."

"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science."

Deborah Bull, British Dancer

Science, Challenge, Interest, Opera

3

"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 dancing spirit."

"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 dancing spirit."

Judith Jamison, American Dancer

Dance, Body, Dancing, End

3

"I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance."

"I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance."

Michael Flatley, Irish Dancer

3

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

God, Dance, Dancing, Living

3

"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."

"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Temple, Ceremony, Mountains, Rivers

3

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

Work, Learning, Thinking

3

"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."

"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

People, Control, Night, Sleep

3

"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."

"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

3

"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius."

"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius."

Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer

Work, Talent, Genius, Being

3

"As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate."

"As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

3

"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."

"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."

Ninette de Valois, Irish Dancer

3

"We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit."

"We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Time, African, Will

3

"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

Existence, Influence, Play

3

"A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece."

"A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece."

Matthew Bourne, English Dancer

People, Company, Will, Years

3

"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."

"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Expression, Now, Silly, Word

3

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."

Agnes de Mille, American Dancer

Power, Dance, Earth, Glory

3

"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."

"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."

Josephine Baker, French Dancer

3

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."

Agnes de Mille, American Dancer

Music, Lie, People, Expression

3

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

Success, Successful, Ballet, Public

3

"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."

"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

Eye, HusbEyes, Mind

3

"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."

"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."

Katherine Dunham, American Dancer

3

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."

Isadora Duncan, American Dancer

Love, Children, World

3

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

3

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

Ted Shawn, American Dancer

3

"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."

"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."

Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer

Sacrifice, Dancing, Pain, World

3

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

Ted Shawn, American Dancer

3

"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows."

"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows."

Paul Taylor, American Dancer

Interest, Now, Want

3

"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."

"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."

Alvin Ailey, American Dancer

People, Nothing

3

"I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful."

"I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful."

Mark Morris, American Dancer

3

"The only sin is mediocrity."

"The only sin is mediocrity."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

Mediocrity, Sin

3

"Misery is a communicable disease."

"Misery is a communicable disease."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

Disease, Misery

3

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