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Choreography Quotes
Enjoy these quotes
about the art of making dances...
”Choreography is simpler
than you think.
Just go and do, and
don't think so much about
it.
Just make something
interesting.”
- George
Balanchine
“Good choreography fuses
eye, ear and mind.”
- Arlene Croce
“A choreographic idea
flows only as fast as the
initiator
can communicate it to
bodies and see them realize it.”
Marcia B. Siegal
”God creates, I do not
create.
I assemble and I steal
everywhere to do it
–
from what I see, from
what the dancers can
do,
from what others
do...”
- George
Balanchine
“I often say that in
making dances I can make a world where I
think
things are done morally,
done democratically, done honestly.”
- Twyla Tharp
"The choreographer
cannot deliberately make a ballet to
appeal
to an
audience, he has to start from
personal inspirations.
He has to trust the
ballet,
to let it stand on its
own strengths or fall on its weaknesses.
If it reaches the
audience, then he is lucky that round!"
- Gerald
Arpino
“I think Balanchine and
Robbins talk to
God
and when I call, he's
out to lunch.”
- Bob
Fosse
“I don't want dancers
who want to dance. I want dancers who have to
dance.”
- George
Balanchine
“Dances without purpose
have false starts and
stops.
- Hanya
Holm
“I'm not interested in a
group of people with some sort
of
incredible homogeny, a
group that can do the movement I
want.
I'm interested in people
who can take the movement
somewhere.”
- Graeme
Murphy
“Dancers are
instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.”
- George
Balanchine
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