Quotes about dan
dance ballet masterpiece
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? George Balanchine
dance eye remember
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician George Balanchine
dance ballet important
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. George Balanchine
dance
See the music, hear the dance. George Balanchine
dance long tree
It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. George Balanchine
dance art athlete
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art. George Balanchine
dance mirrors just-dance
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. George Balanchine
dance made visible
Dance is music made visible George Balanchine
dance stealing ballet-teachers
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do... George Balanchine
dance thinking interesting
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting. George Balanchine
dance girl men
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. George Balanchine
dance prayer sweat
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. George Balanchine
dance teacher years
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. George Balanchine
dance ballet-class play
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. George Balanchine
dance men firsts
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. George Balanchine
dangerous medium reliable trusted
The e-mail inbox has become a dangerous place. It doesn't say much for our e-mail medium when it is not as reliable or trusted as it should be.
dancing television republican
It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican. Joe Queenan
dance lasts performances
Dance every performance as if it were your last. Erik Bruhn
dancing revolution
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having. Emma Goldman
dancing want naked
I want you to dance naked, if you like, I'll join you. John Mellencamp
dancing dull mathematics
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. John James Audubon
dance ego forget
Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer. Rajneesh
dangerous
It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous... Raekwon
dancing rude television
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. Neil Innes
dancing tree done
For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done. Neil Gaiman
danger limbs roof
Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof. John Muir
dancer
Buff Bagwell ain't nothin' but a chippendale dancer! Scott Steiner
dance dancing acting
What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer. Ray Bolger
dancer enthusiastic
Out of 10 how enthusiastic a dancer am I? 11 Tom Hiddleston
dancer ballet juilliard
I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard. Solange Knowles
dance ideas world
The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. Siobhan Davies
dance play influence
It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence. Siobhan Davies
dance ego movement
When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance. Rajneesh