Quotes about dance
dancer
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read. Suzanne Farrell
dancer unemotional
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not. Suzanne Farrell
dance mean important
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance. Suzanne Farrell
dance serious normal
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance. Suzanne Farrell
dance thinking important
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. Suzanne Farrell
dance wall dancing
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession. Suzanne Farrell
dance insecure ballet
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited. Suzanne Farrell
dance being-yourself different
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer. Suzanne Farrell
dance vibrate
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate. Suzanne Farrell
dance men romance
When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing! Susannah McCorkle
dancer ballet matter
You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer. Susanna Hoffs
dance dancing tap-dancing
Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz. Sammy Davis, Jr.
dance world flesh
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is. T. S. Eliot
dance
When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance. Umberto Eco
dancer causes needs
I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me. Trey Songz
dance reality roles
One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place. Rick Dees
dance discipline mind
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. Vince Lombardi
dance sports football
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport... Vince Lombardi
dancer tables globalization
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. Subcomandante Marcos
dance age awareness
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance. Rudolf Nureyev
dance soul body
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her. Rudolf Nureyev
dance dancing body
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. Rudolf Nureyev
dance dumb ballet
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? Rudolf Nureyev
dance teacher class
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it. Rudolf Nureyev
dance art fall
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer. Rudolf Arnheim
dance children ballet
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. W. H. Auden
dance stars ballet-class
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop. W. H. Auden
dance ballet-class dancing
Dance, dance, dance till you drop. W. H. Auden
dance animal people
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses. William Cobbett
dance hair cake
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. Vaughn Monroe
dance children dancer
dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever ... Twyla Tharp
dance art stepchild
Dance is the stepchild of the arts. Twyla Tharp
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