“If you believe that the show you’re
making will improve the world, there’s nothing saying that your goals and
self-interests and someone else’s goals and interests have to be mutually
exclusive. They can align.”
Source: The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century
“When someone is the song to your heart's rhythm, dance with them through the swings of life.”
“I can teach you how to dance, but I can't teach you how to be sexy. Well, I mean I can, but it'll cost you an additional $19.95.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“It's not the rhythm or the steps that make the dance,
but the passion that goes in the soul of those who dance.”
“She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this universal homage and admiration, of the desires she had aroused, of the completeness of a victory so dear to her feminine heart.”
Source: The Necklace
“Dance critics all over the world have called my body moves, “Sculpturesque,” “As full of motion as a Rodin statue,” and “Like watching Helen Keller eat Jell-O with her elbows.” My dancing is so still and silent that it belongs on a shelf in a library, next to other great literature.”
Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“Then he gives me his quicksilver smile, the kind that makes me feel as though we are friends conspiring together. 'Since you're in a benevolent mood, perhaps you'll also dance with me.'
My surprise must be evident. 'Why?'
He grins. 'To celebrate you continuing with this quest. Because we're at a party. So that Queen Annet believes we've got nothing to hide.'
'Do we have something to hide?' I ask.
He smiles wider, giving me a tug toward the revellers. 'Always.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Some songs should be silent. They would be more danceable if they were ear camouflaged.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“I dance like both my shoes are nailed to the wall. It goes way beyond mere performance and into the realm of art. I am the Rodin of the music world.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.”
Source: The Wicked King