Quotes about dance
dance art ballet-class
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
dance reading dancing
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones. John Adams
dancer born
One is born to be a great dancer. George Balanchine
dance ballet stories
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.
dance clouds trousers
I am a cloud - in trousers.
dance unions muse
My muse must come to me on union time.
dance teacher medicine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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?
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
dance ballet important
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
dance
See the music, hear the dance.
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.
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.
dance mirrors just-dance
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.
dance made visible
Dance is music made visible
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...
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.
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.
dance prayer sweat
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
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.
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 competition ballet
I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was. Joan Chen
dance mother modern-woman
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. Lionel Blue
dancer
I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do. Lady Gaga
dance france england
The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Lewis Carroll
dance alice-adventures-in-wonderland
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
dance african-american care
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. Josephine Baker
dance dancer threshold
Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it. Judith Jamison
dancer black world
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
dance thinking white
I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.