Quote

The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.

Lucinda Childs

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucinda Childs
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: June 26
Choreographer
Dancer
New York City
New York
Firsts
Picks
First
Relationship
Many
Goes
Different
Stage
Work
Seeing
Dancers
Time
Audience
Stages
Someone
Dancer
May
Pick

More quotes by Lucinda Childs

Image
I think dancing is an emotional experience.
Lucinda Childs
Image
I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.
Lucinda Childs
Image
If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.
Lucinda Childs
Image
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.
Lucinda Childs
Image
I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.
Lucinda Childs
Image
The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.
Lucinda Childs
Image
I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.
Lucinda Childs
Image
I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.
Lucinda Childs