Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

• Words
• Poetry
• Dance
• Design
• Painting
• Color
• Ballet
• Opera
• Sequence

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Dance