Quotes about dan
dance art dancing
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art. Twyla Tharp
dance challenges culture
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.
dance workout morning
I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.
dancing rewards different
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
dancer becoming enough
I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough.
dance thinking dancing
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly.
dancer modern should
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut..
dance easy easy-life
Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
dancer boiled-eggs life-is
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
dance
I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
dance real two
I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.
dance thinking discovery
I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.
dance difficult justify
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
dance stupid people
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
dance way machines
We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.
dance believe thinking
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
dance kids thinking
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.
dance dancing splits
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
dance knows know-how
I do everything I know how in a dance.
dance moving thinking
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
dance dream becoming-the-best
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.
dance wall thinking
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
dance running art
dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
dance done today
Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today? William Arthur Ward
dance men fire
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road. Thomas Hardy
dance answers kind
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray. Thomas Campion
dancer acting singers
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it. Victoria Beckham
dancing film fifth
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. Victoria Abril
dangerous-situations car getaways
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car. Sacha Baron Cohen
dance lost-love light
In your light I learn how to love. Rumi
dance heart wind
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
dancing inward nevertheless
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
dancing eccentric
I do some eccentric dancing. Roy Blount, Jr.