Quotes by Danial Shapiro

“When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, Its just modern dance. I cannot get so worked up. Its important to me, I love doing it, but for Gods sake, its just modern dance.”

“The imagery is very much released from reality. Its not nailed down to specifics of the words. Theyre painting a picture, not telling linear stories.”

“We look at different facets, different relationships, the same relationship at different points in time. We look sometimes at the whole town and sometimes at individual relationships, and by the time were done you have a sense of having met the people of this town.”

“This [dance piece] is something weve been thinking about for a while. There seems to be some synergy between the three [songwriters]. We thought there was such a tight connection that to get all these things together in one production would be really fascinating.”

“People own the Moonlight Sonata. Their children were conceived to it, and its difficult to find anybody in Western society who doesnt have a personal relationship to that. You put [that widely known] a song on, and you start dancing to it, you are going to collide with peoples own lives and own stories, and we are very interested in that.”