* My FaVoRiTe DaNcE qUoTeS*
"Dance like nobody's looking" * unknown*
"Great dancers are not great because of thier technique, they are great because of thier passion" * unknown*
"Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" * George Balanchine*
"All I ever needed was the music and the mirror..." * A Chorus Line*
"When you get on stage it's like having an affair with over ahundred people" * Gelsey Kirkland*
" Dancing is a very living art, it is essentially of the movement,although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he or she is dancing. Nothing is left of his or her art exept the photos and the memories when his or her dancing days are over" * Martha Graham*
" I dont want people who want to dance, i want people who have to dance" * Geaorge Balanchine *
" Dance first, think, later, it's the natural order" * Samuel Beckett*
"Dance is not technique but expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other"*George Borodin*
"Dance every performance as if it were your last."
*Erik Bruhn*
"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined."
*Lord Byron*
"You've got to sing like you don't need the money,
Love like you'll never get hurt.
You've got to dance like no one is watching,
It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work."
*Susannah Clark*
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
--Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind."
---Arlene Croce
"1. Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners."
--Attributed to Dick Crum(?), a folk dance teacher
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
--e. e. cummings
"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
--Jaques D'Amboise
"To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
--Agnes de Mille
"Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming."
--Agnes de Mille
"Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself."
--Jean Dubuffet
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."
--John Dryden
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."
--Isadora Duncan
"Great artists are people who find ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
--Margot Fonteyn
"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather."
--Martha Graham
"Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground."
--Martha Graham
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."
--Mata Hari
"He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor."
--Hindu proverb
"Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that: your dancing spirit."
--Judith Jamison
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
--Shanna LaFleur
"Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do."
--Shirley Maclaine
"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 Maclaine
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."
--Ruth St. Denis
"He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May."
--Shakespeare (Merry Wives of Windsor)
"Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split second timing."
--Twyla Tharp
"The Ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time."
--Source unknown
"Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty."
--Source unknown
"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels."
--Source unknown
"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart."
--Source unknown
