19th-century Choreographer Quotes

Isadora Duncan

Vaslav Nijinsky

Mary Wigman

August Bournonville

Agrippina Vaganova

Ruth St. Denis

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

August Bournonville

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

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

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.

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

Vaslav Nijinsky

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