I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

- Lucinda Childs

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

- Lucinda Childs

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement i…

- Lucinda Childs

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

- Lucinda Childs

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on …

- Lucinda Childs

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pi…

- Lucinda Childs

"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large forms. I feel that it is by an…

- Lucinda Childs

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

- Lucinda Childs

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive…

- Lucinda Childs