Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.
Interpretation
Movement in dance conveys emotions and ideas, and cannot be separated from its expressiveness.
Merce Cunningham emphasizes that movement, particularly in dance, is intrinsically expressive and is not just a series of abstract actions. He argues that every movement carries meaning and emotions, indicating that dance ultimately communicates with its audience in a profound way, blurring the lines between art and expression.
In practice
This quote can be used during a dance workshop to inspire participants about the expressive nature of movement.
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.
I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
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