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.
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. Hamilton's personality is driven and unrelenting, and the music has that same quality. The music and the man mirror each other.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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