Best Dance Performance 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

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

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

“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

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”

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Author:Martha Graham

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

“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”

Inspirational Heart Kind Dancing Dance Dancer Fever Just Dance Graphs Classical Dance Dance Performance

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”

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Author:Martha Graham

“People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.”

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Author:Jose Parla

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

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Author:Moliere

“My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'”

Ifs May Said Law Next Father Numbers Saws Performances Phones Next Day In-laws Phone Calls Dance Performance Father In Law Wrong Number

Author:Nita Ambani

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

Source: Dave Barry Turns 50

“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.”

“Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”

“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

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Book:La Fanfarlo

Source: La Fanfarlo

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

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

“I believe that 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. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

“Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.”

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Author:Alarmel Valli

“Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.”

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Author:Howard Thurston

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

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Author:Erik Bruhn

“When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.”

People Three Stage Thousand Dancing Dance Affair Just Dance Short Dance Dance Performance

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

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

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Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.”

Kind Answers Break Performances Dance Dancer Just Dance Dance Performance

Author:Thomas Campion

“Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.”

“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.”

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Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.”

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Book:Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

Source: Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

“So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.”

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Author:Benjamin Harkarvy

“Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.”

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Author:Murray Louis

“A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.”

People Language Attention Five Performances Dance Ballet Going Out Battlefields Dance Performance

Author:Yamini Krishnamurthy

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

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Book:The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music”

Dancing Mysterious Merit Being Human Dance Performance

Book:La Fanfarlo

Source: La Fanfarlo

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well.”

“You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.”

Mind Heart Eye Audience Fool Dance Just Dance Crux Dance Performance

Author:Howard Thurston

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