Best Ballet Dance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.”

Source: Blood Memory

“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”

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Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”

“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.”

Source: Blood Memory

“Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.”

“Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.”

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Author:Benjamin Millepied

“...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.”

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Author:Moliere

“Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”

“Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.”

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”

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Book:Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics

Source: Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics

“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”

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Author:George Balanchine

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.”

Source: Dave Barry Turns 50

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”

“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Source: America dances

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.”

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it”

“I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.”

“Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.”

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”

“Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”

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Author:Agnes de Mille

“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.”

“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.”

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Author:George Sava

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.”

“Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.”

Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas

“Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”

“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.”

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.”

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.”

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Author:Jacques d'Amboise

“Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.”

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Author:Jerome Robbins

“Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”

“Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“Even the ears must dance.”

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Author:Natalia Makarova

“Dance every performance as if it were your last.”

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Author:Erik Bruhn

“It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

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Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.”

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Author:Anna Pavlova

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