American Choreographer Quotes

Isadora Duncan

Gene Kelly

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Twyla Tharp

Agnes de Mille

Ruth St. Denis

Savion Glover

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB... Horrifying.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

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

Enjoy the journey. Enjoy the journey, and the hard work and the sacrifices and opportunities it takes to get somewhere, because it will all make you better at what you do when you arrive.

Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

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.

I am committed to using technology in my dances but not for the purpose of making a comment on technology, but rather to use it as a tool to express the human condition. I think that there are many disadvantages to using technology, it is expensive, difficult to set up and can steal the show by drawing too much attention away from the dance. I love the beauty and the simplicity of a warm body moving without frills, but I think technology is part of our common language now and to not create a relationship with it in dance seems like ignoring a vital tool for connection.

Birth is the beginning of physical life and death is the end of it. But the essential energy of existence (Da) continues beyond physical life. Both life and death simply exist and are two sides of the same coin of existence.

I want to bring in 'da noise. I want to bring in 'da funk.

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

Elizabeth Streb