Quotes about dan
dance voice dancing
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing. Ovid
dance memories essence
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by. Martha Graham
dance emotional discipline
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.
dance fall dancing
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
dance believe practice
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
dance healing ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
dance flower tree
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
dance care done
If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!
dance heart fever
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.
dance hard-work people
Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.
dance sleep body
There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
dance world
The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.
dance soul weaving
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
dance years dancing
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.
dance mediocrity sin
The only sin is mediocrity.
dance art memories
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.
dance thinking mirrors
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
dance fun laughter
It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.
dance communication challenges
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
dance dancing movement
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
dance dancing looks
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
dancing secret
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
dancer body awareness
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
dance mean discipline
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
dance passion movement
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
dance blessed artist
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
dance believe firsts
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
dance dancing messengers
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
dance mean practice
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
dance lying passion
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.
dance dancer chosen
I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
dance dancing movement
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
dance tree spine
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.