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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

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I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

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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.

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In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: April 16th, 1919

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