2022
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"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore
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"A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
- Marcel Marceau
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"Why do we dance? To move. To let loose. To express. Why do we dance together? To heal. To say we speak a common language."
- Camille A. Brown (dancer and choreographer)
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"The ultimate measure
of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and
controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the
people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."
- Alvin Ailey
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"The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to
speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too
strong to only sing about how you feel."
- Bob Fosse (American director & choreographer)
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"Like all the arts, dance too is an ocean. Every dive only yields a pearl or two."
- Dr. Kanak Rele
(‘Dance is an ocean. Every dive yields only one pearl’ by Yogesh Pawar, Mid-Day, May 1, 2022)
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"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire
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I'm very encouraged by what's happening in dance now. It's so much more
porous than other art disciplines (blessed by the fact it's non-verbal),
and you can see all kinds of fascinating encounters and dialogues among
different genres, traditions, cultures, and perspectives. Without
these, we risk stagnation, and in the slipstream of stagnation lurks
mediocrity. Dance is pluralistic and we are fighting and in some
quarters winning the battle for multiple truths and the complexity that
comes with this. Because of this I feel hopeful for the future.
- Farooq Chaudhry
('Master of art management' by Chitra Swaminathan, The Hindu Friday Review, April 15, 2022)
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"The greater purpose of art is to bring people together and break down walls - not to build them."
- Hans Zimmer (German composer)
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"Since a dancer's body is at once brush, paint, canvas, and artist,
self-involvement is practically a pre-requisite. To be obsessed with
dance is to be obsessed with yourself."
- Olivia Campbell
('The creation of yourself: On the flow and fugue of dance' by Olivia Campbell, Literary Hub, Feb 17, 2022)
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The beauty of longer, "boring"
presentations is fast being replaced by made-to-order,
"less-than-a-minute", high-resolution capsules. For one, this has
changed the very art forms as they are presented on social media.
Secondly, it has led to a surfeit of content that stands the danger of
becoming cookie-cutter stuff. But, more significantly, the very purpose
of art is now to please people and see how to make the content go viral.
('The big question' by Anil Srinivasan, The Hindu Friday Review - 25 Feb 2022)
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"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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