Steve Paxton quotes
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“Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.”
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“With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.”
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“Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.”
-- Steve Paxton
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“Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.”
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“Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.”
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“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
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“When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.”
Source : "Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2012.
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