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Quotes by Dancer
"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."
Love,
3
"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
3
"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."
3
"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
2
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
2
"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."
2
"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
2
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
2
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
2
"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."
2
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
2
"If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't."
2
"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
2
"Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?"
2
"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
2
"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
2
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
2
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
2
"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with."
2
"Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories."
2
"I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form."
2
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
2
"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
2
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
2
"I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago."
2
"I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future."
2
"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
2
"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
2
"You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God."
God,
2
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
2
"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."
2
"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically."
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