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“First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.”

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George Balanchine, born on January 22, 1904, and died on April 30, 1983, was an outstanding American choreographer. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he later moved to the United States and had a profound impact on the development of modern ballet. Balanchine, with his unique choreographic style and innovative dance language, is hailed as one of the greatest ballet choreographers of the 20th century. more

“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.”

Looks Art Stones Dancing Dance Dancer Plus Execution Ultras Adagio

Author:Carlo Blasis

“It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.”

Done Care Numbers Depends Exercise Skills Dancing Dance Just Dance

Author:August Bournonville

“I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.”

Dancing Dance Charlie Chaplin

Author:Louise Brooks

“The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.”

Humans Death Animal Dying Dancing Dance Edges Graves Human Animal

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.”

Turns England Dancing Dance France Beloved Pale Just Dance Snail

Book:Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия

Source: Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия

“Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.”

People Giving Has Beens Young Spirit Natural Animal Dancing Dance Rational Amusement Moses Just Dance Animal Spirits

Book:Advice to Young Men

Source: Advice to Young Men

“We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.”

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

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