Best quotes by Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais
American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, teacher
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, teacher. He had created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was best known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production design. Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the "father of multi-media theater."
All quotes by Alwin Nikolais:
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.
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.