Merce Cunningham Quotes

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In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

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I don’t like teaching, because it’s so repetitive – especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It’s tedious. But I know it’s necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

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Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he’d make a different one for the music.

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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.

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The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn’t seen them.

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Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet – but the arm had to do something large against this – and this set up a kind of opposition.

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I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn’t particularly interested in doing.

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My work always comes from the same source – from movement. It doesn’t necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I’ve seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

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Our emotions are constantly being propelled by some new face in the sky, some new rocket to the moon, some new sound in the ear, but they are the same emotions.

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I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

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My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

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Fortunately, dance has been what’s interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.

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I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet – something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

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Movement is expressive. I’ve never denied that. I don’t think there’s such a thing as abstract dance.

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My process has changed over the years. I’d say it has been enhanced.

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You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

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All these dismal things that are going on in the world – the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution – it’s so frightful, over the whole world.

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I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed.

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