Alwin Nikolais Quotes

Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.