Quote

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

— Robert Gottlieb

Sentiment: POSITIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

— Jacob Dalton

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

— Alexander Pope

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

— Pete Carroll

Sometimes you get bored of the same moves, but you know that there are those moves that those fans love.

— Ciara

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

— Merce Cunningham

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

— Elliott Carter

I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

— Esperanza Spalding

✗Opposing Perspectives

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

— Ira Glass

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

— Judith Jamison

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

— Jamie Wyeth