- Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
- Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?
- Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer.
You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who
you are. You become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.
~ Shirley Maclain
- The audiences' ears hear the music & their eyes see you being that music. Dance is the music made visible. You are the music!
- We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal.
The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. ~ Martha Graham
- All I ever needed was the music and the mirror... ~ A Chorus Line
- To touch to move to inspire- this is the true gift of dance. ~ Aubrey Lynch
- Technique - bodily control - must be mastered only because
the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression. ~ La Meri
- It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument,
handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely. ~ Martha Graham
- All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus.
The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do.
But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project. ~ Luis Fuente
- So many dances leave me untouched, unmoved. A dancer should be able to raise an arm and
make someone cry--in the way Isadora Duncan did. It is a necessity for any art to move you.
~ Pauline Koner
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barr
- We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~ Japanese Proverb
- The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes de Mille
- Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~ George Balanchine
- To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
~ Agnes De Mille
- Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
~ Author Unknown
- Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
~ W.H. Auden
- I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
~ George Balanchine
- Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~ Charles Baudelaire
- Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is
not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~ Havelock Ellis
- Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham
- Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~ Martha Graham
- The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~ Mata Hari
- I see dance being used as communication between body and soul,
to express what it too deep to find for words. ~ Ruth St. Denis
- Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.
~ Peter Saint James
- Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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