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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. (Verdon Gwen)
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. (Verdon Gwen)
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. (Verdon Gwen)
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. (Verdon Gwen)
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. (Verdon Gwen)
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. (Verdon Gwen)
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. (Verdon Gwen)
I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. (Verdon Gwen)
I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show. (Verdon Gwen)
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. (Verdon Gwen)
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. (Verdon Gwen)
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. (Verdon Gwen)
Classical ballet will never die. (Verdon Gwen)
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. (Verdon Gwen)
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. (Verdon Gwen)
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? (Verdon Gwen)
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. (Verdon Gwen)
The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method. (Verdon Gwen)
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. (Verdon Gwen)
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. (Verdon Gwen)
I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago. (Verdon Gwen)
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