Quotes about dan
dance world
The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named. Martha Graham
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.
dancer use way
I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.
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.
dance holy-ground dancer
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
dance discovery dancing
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery
dance lying law
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
dance sleep frustration
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
dance motivation believe
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open...
dance passion ballet-class
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
dance wings body
Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.
dance body choreographers
The body says what words cannot.
dance wisdom artist
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
dance two wish
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.