"The vision in my work was to always investigate tradition and modernity through the present body".
Akram Khan
Akram Khan
“To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance".
Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch
"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more ... gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on".
Kurt Jooss
Kurt Jooss