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Contemporary Links

Pete Purdy - Freelance contemporary dance director, choreographer, teacher and producer, based in Swindon. Profile, projects and contact details.
The Basement Dance Studio - Beginner contemporary dance classes with the option to receive a recognised qualification. London.
Scottish School of Contemporary Dance - Contemporary techniques, classical ballet, choreography and related courses for dancers. Located in Dundee, Scotland.
Cassiel - Live sound design and synthesis for contemporary dance projects; based in Scotland.
The Place - Discover, learn, create and watch dance - the London home of Richard Alston Dance Company, London Contemporary Dance School and Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
New Moves - Annual festival of contemporary dance, Glasgow.
World Wide Dance UK - Promoting international modern dance performed in the UK. Profiles of troupes plus season guide. Includes an archive of The Dance Handbook covering dance from 1900 to 1989.
attik dance - Contemporary dance, performance, education and community outreach: performances, profile and contact details.
Ascendance - Leeds based company. Performances, education, bookings, news and projects.
DV8 Physical Theatre - London collective of dancers who had become frustrated with the direction of most dance. Current production and tour, and bulletin board.
Earthfall - Radical choreography with live music and strong visual imagery. Information on education, work process, reviews, past, present and future work. Cardiff based.
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(Bert Leston Taylor) Contemporary Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Contemporary Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Contemporary A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Contemporary "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Contemporary "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov Contemporary Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Contemporary Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Contemporary I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright Contemporary If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson Contemporary The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Contemporary My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Contemporary Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Contemporary The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise Contemporary Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Contemporary Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Contemporary "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contemporary Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Contemporary "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Contemporary One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Contemporary "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Contemporary
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