Quotes

Dancing should be completely understandable -- every move, every turn should mean something, should be crystal clear to the audience. And if you can make them laugh or cry, move them emotionally, make them respond to the dancer as a real person doing something believable within your theatrical framework, well, you've done a job.

Here are these slobs living off in the woods. They have no schooling, they are uncouth, there's manure on the floor, the cows come in and out -- and they're gonna get up and dance? We'd be laughed out of the theater! [We ultimately managed to] find a way to have these backwoods men dance without looking ridiculous. -- M.K., on why he initially turned down Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).