Quotes about dance
danced edge hand light
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon. They danced by the light of the moon. Edward Lear
dance dance-and-dancing learned noise teach
And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended. Dar Williams
dance
And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on Theodore Roethke
dance dance-and-dancing happy
And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury. William Blake
dance taken steps
So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance? Hermann Hesse
dancer dialect different
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak. Jon M. Chu
dancer
I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer. Jon M. Chu
dance hands ideas
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. Luc de Clapiers
dancer terrible englishmen
I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman. John Cleese
dance reading dancing
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones. John Adams
dancer born
One is born to be a great dancer. George Balanchine
dance ballet stories
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. George Balanchine
dance clouds trousers
I am a cloud - in trousers. George Balanchine
dance unions muse
My muse must come to me on union time. George Balanchine
dance teacher medicine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine
dance ballet masterpiece
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? George Balanchine
dance eye remember
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician George Balanchine
dance ballet important
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. George Balanchine
dance
See the music, hear the dance. George Balanchine
dance long tree
It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. George Balanchine
dance art athlete
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art. George Balanchine
dance mirrors just-dance
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. George Balanchine
dance made visible
Dance is music made visible George Balanchine
dance stealing ballet-teachers
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do... George Balanchine
dance thinking interesting
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting. George Balanchine
dance girl men
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. George Balanchine
dance prayer sweat
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. George Balanchine
dance teacher years
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. George Balanchine
dance ballet-class play
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. George Balanchine
dance men firsts
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. George Balanchine
danced heard heart moods
The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to Hugh Prather
dancer enough good-enough
I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen. Maura Tierney
dance culture world
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Matthew Arnold