Quotes about dance
dance eye heart
Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater. Mikhail Baryshnikov
dancer firsts lasts
I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
dance giving trying
We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
dancer want born
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
dance simplicity legs
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
dance artist order
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
dance injury smarter
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
dance taken dancing
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. Margot Fonteyn
dance firsts moments
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time
dance civilization special
The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.
dance children jumping
Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.
dance
I explained it when I danced it.
dance ballet way
Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.
dance magic genius
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
dance attitude self-esteem
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
dance art people
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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.
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.