Quotes about dance
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.
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.
dance lasts performances
Dance every performance as if it were your last. Erik Bruhn
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
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.
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.
dance feels asks
If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.
dance song gratitude
Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny and cloudless day. True celebration arises from a joy that is first experienced deep within, and spills over into an overflow of song and dance and laughter, and yes, even tears of gratitude.
dance god art
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.
dancer ego world
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.
dance latin differences
Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference. Sofia Vergara
dance body easy
Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance. Socrates
dance dancing discipline
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion. Merce Cunningham
dance thinking transformation
I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.
dance ballet-class dancing
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too...
dance way
The only way to do it is to do it.
dance wall museums
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .
dance mean thinking
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.
dance-and-dancing dancing fold lines transition
The dancing is in patterns. Lines transition and fold into each other.
dance dance-and-dancing movement poem
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world. Mata Hari
dance dance-and-dancing excited goes looked saw zone
The first week, he goes down and does his dance. This Sunday, he went down and he looked back first and saw the flag, so he didn't dance. The thing that we'll all be excited about is when Dennis can get into the end zone and he can dance freely.
dance drops team tight vibe whether
You can sense the energy. You can tell whether something drops or whether the dance is tight or how the team vibe is going.
dance-and-dancing older
You can see the progression of the little bitty ones to the older dancers. Mary Johnston
dance couple play
O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! Henry Austin Dobson
dance art our-world
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
dance art mean
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated. Plato
dance order dancing
In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.