"DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape."

-- Alvin Ailey

#Book Quotes #Texas Quotes #Creating Quotes

“It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (1871). “The Story of My Life”, p.146
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.”
“Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.”
“Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.”
“Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.”
“I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley”
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”
“I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.”

You may also like:

Bill T. Jones
Artistic Director
George Balanchine
Choreographer
Jose Limon
Judith Jamison
Dancer
Katherine Dunham
Dancer
Martha Graham
Choreographer
Merce Cunningham
Dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Choreographer
Robert Battle
Dancer