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I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

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Lucinda Childs

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

Choreographers, Concerts, Dance, Make, Trying
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I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

Arrive, Ideas, Material, Purpose, Tools, Use

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

Ballet, Demonstrated, Dull, Lifeless, Simple, Take

I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.

Connected, Needs, See, Structure, Surface

"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large forms. I feel that it is by and large a formally successful work, though I was constrained to write a piece at least fifty minutes long, and there are some dead spots in the music where I think I was simply marking time. However, I think when the dance is in motion, the formal problem is nonexistent.

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The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.

Achieved, Dancer, Feeling, Feelings, Giving, Movement
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