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My process has changed over the years. I'd say it has been enhanced.
- Merce Cunningham
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#Over
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#Say
#Years
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Everything
#Me
#Space
#Time
#Universe
The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.
- Merce Cunningham
#Arms
#Back
#Legs
#Revelation
#Spine
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Isolation
#Pollution
#Sickness
#World
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Body
#Chance
#Mind
#New
#Together
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Always
#Beginning
#Done
#Know
#More
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
- Merce Cunningham
#Get
#Ideas
#Myself
#Position
#Try
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Always
#Movement
#Outside
#Seeing
#Work
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.
- Merce Cunningham
#Camera
#Chance
#Open
#Seeing
#Tools
Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.
- Merce Cunningham
#Cry
#Fall
#Rise
#Sound
#Words
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.
- Merce Cunningham
#Dance
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#My Life
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