"My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general publicâ€™s hearts and minds and bodies."

-- Elizabeth Streb

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“We have a guy from Switzerland who is just playing the game in a way I haven't seen anyone - and I mean anyone - play before. How fortunate we are to be able to see that. If he stays healthy and motivated - and the wonderful feel he has stays with him - he is the kind of guy who can overtake the greatest.”
“An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.”
“...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.”

Source : Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.59, Harvard University Press
“Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.”
“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library
“I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.”
“What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.”
“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.119, Pushkin Press

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