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Quote by Carlo Blasis

“The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.”

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Carlo Blasis

Carlo Blasis, born on November 4, 1797 in Naples, Italy, and died on January 15, 1878. He was one of the most famous ballet choreographers of the 19th century, renowned for his scientific research and innovation in ballet movements. more

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.”

Children Dancing Dance

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The only way to do it is to do it.”

Way Dancing Dance

Book:The Dancer and the Dance

Source: The Dancer and the Dance

“When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!”

Ifs Stills Young Boys Feet Dancing Dance Curiosity Fifty Sixty Seventies Phenomenal Just Dance Old You Feet Off The Ground

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.”