For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.
Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
When you have a sense of yourself in space, in your movement, in your muscles, you can express yourself through your body, your instrument. You learn so much about who you are and what your truth is.
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
I would love to be able to tap dance.
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is.
