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Post-modern dance, whatever that means, has been about how it feels to dance or the theories of dancing, and I don't buy that. There's also the dramatic, emotional element which is not acting or mime, but it's real emotion, and you have to make those emotions happen. It's pretend, in that it's bigger in a shorter period of time than life is, but all of that has to happen.
-- Mark Morris
[Sir Frederick Ashton] derives too, it seems to me, from the kind of awkward and inspired dancing that young people do when they come back from their first thrilling ballet evening and dance the whole ballet they have seen in their own room in a kind of trance. The steps do not look like school steps (though they are as a matter of fact correct); they are like discoveries, like something you do not know you can do, with the deceptive air of being incorrect and accidental that romantic poetry has.
-- Edwin Denby
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