“Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.” PassionPeaceBreakPiecesDancingDanceAbandonWorldly Author:Rumi
“Dancing is the body made poetic.” MadeBodyDancingDancePoeticBallet Book:Notes on the Piano Source: Notes on the Piano
“You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.” LyingSidesImpossibleMouthsDirectDancingDance Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.” HardDreamCareersSuccessfulAchieveHard WorkWake UpDanceDancerSuccessful Career Author:Grover Dale
“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.” Can DoDanceStealingDancerChoreographyChoreographersGreat DanceBallet Teachers Author:George Balanchine
“I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.” PeopleWantCan DoGroupsMovementDanceIncrediblesNot InterestedChoreographyChoreographers Author:Graeme Murphy
“Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.” ThinkingMotivationalInterestingDanceChoreographyChoreographersSomething InterestingGreat Dance Author:George Balanchine
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.” PeopleMindMayHas BeensBodyYoungKnownMaterialsMonthsBallsDancingDancePassingPassingsInstanceInjuryDescription Book:Emma Source: Emma
“For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know” KnowsTomorrowDanceYesterday Author:Kate Seredy