“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” DifferentPlayHumorFunnyMovingCommonCreativityLaughterDancingDanceSpeedCommon SenseDancerSense Of HumorJust DanceInspirational DanceShort DanceGood Sense Of HumorHumor And LaughterMotivational DanceHumor LaughterLack Of Common SenseGod Has A Sense Of Humor Author:William James
“The dance is the mother of all languages.” MotherLanguageDancingDanceJust DanceArt Dance Author:Robin G. Collingwood
“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.” WorldHumansHas BeensSaidSpiritCultureKnownHistoryDanceHuman SpiritArt And CultureCultures Of The World Author:Matthew Arnold
“When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?” KnowsFeelsTwoTogetherMovingThreeLove IsHalfMinutesDancingDanceAffairPartnersBalletLove AffairJust DanceCorrespondingTrianglesMusic And DanceDance Partner Author:Frankie Manning
“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.” LooksWonderMysteryAwarenessFunctionDancingDanceVarietySensationsAffirmationSpectatorsVigorImpartDance LifeWonder Of LifeDance Is Life Author:Martha Graham
“The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.” WellsPlayForceSpaceAudienceStageIllusionDanceDisappearFactorsRealmsVisibleDancerBalletTime And SpaceUnbrokenAutonomousDance Performance Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” HumansHappensDifficultMemoriesSpaceEffectsParticularEssencePerformancesDanceCriticalRhythmDiscussionTerminologyGreat Dance Author:Martha Graham
“Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?” YearsArtLastsNightDiesYears AgoRemainsDancingDanceForgottenProductionsExcitedDecadesGloriousDancerRetiringLast NightJust DanceBallerinaChoreographersArt DanceLast Dance Author:Jack Anderson
“Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.” ThinkingMenSpeakEmotionBrainSingingDancingDanceDancerCarrieEcstasyJust DanceThinking Man Book:My Life (Revised and Updated) Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)
“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.” ArtMomentsLeftMemoriesArt IsDancingDanceDancerBalletArt Dance Author:Martha Graham
