From a 2006 interview:
Renee Montagne: “I’m going to quote you something that you’ve said, that I hope is an accurate quote. Here we go: ‘I think of dancing as being movement, any kind of movement. And that it is as accurate and impermanent as breathing.’”
Merce Cunningham: “Yes, I think it is.”
Montagne: “So does that mean you will be dancing, in effect, right to that last breath?”
Cunningham: “Well, probably.”
Montagne: “As long as you live, you’ll be dancing?”
Cunningham: “Yes — or I can call it dancing. Even if nobody else does.”
