In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Social revolutions are never simple.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Classical ballet will never die.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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.'
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