Words matter. These are the best Modern Dance Quotes from famous people such as Lesli Linka Glatter, Robert Gottlieb, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Greta Gerwig, Eva Marie Saint, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can’t cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn’t. So when I direct, I’m a big preparer.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
See, modern dance forms have a pull because the youngsters can relate to it, but it makes me happy to say that in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, people still relate to classical art forms.
There’s a style in modern dance right now called Release Technique. It’s based on a feeling of falling and catching yourself, and I thought it was such a good metaphor for the way life feels.
I was in the chorus in high school, not a soloist. I was on the basketball team. I was in modern dance, part of the group. I was a cheerleader, part of the group. I played the violin, part of the orchestra. I never wanted to be out there alone. Ever.
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don’t really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, ‘This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.’
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
I used to dance when I was younger – ballet and modern dance.
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical theater, to ballet and classic modern dance, I have had extensive exposure to a variety of techniques that inspire my own electric style.
The early giants of modern dance – Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis – barely left traces of their art.
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important – in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance – suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
