Zitat des Tages von Merce Cunningham:
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.
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.
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.
What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.
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.
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.
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.
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.
In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.
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.
