19th-century Choreographer Quotes

Isadora Duncan

Vaslav Nijinsky

Mary Wigman

August Bournonville

Agrippina Vaganova

Ruth St. Denis

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

Vaslav Nijinsky

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

August Bournonville

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

Agrippina Vaganova

Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming