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Source: Push Comes to Shove

“when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.”

Art Common Movement Logic Dancing Dance Inevitability Egocentric Classical Art

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“Dance is the stepchild of the arts.”

Art Dance Stepchild

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.”

Children Forever Dance Dancer

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.”

Body Remember Grows Wings Dance

Author:Martha Graham

“I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.”

Dance Chosen Dancer

Author:Martha Graham

“There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.”

Body Sleep Cry Dance Dancer Fatigue Just Dance Great Dance Pointe Dancers

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.”

People Hard Hard Work Dance Bones Dancer

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.”

Humans Heart Kind Body Life Is Speak Instruments Dance Human Body Fever Graphs

Author:Martha Graham

“Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.”

Dance Dancer

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.”

Art Honesty Dance Oneself

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.”

Movement Sacred Dance Temples Vague

Author:Mata Hari

“I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.”

Way Inspirational Mind Body Focus Dance Active Resistance Dancer Feminine Swimming Hiking Good Way Cardio Cardiovascular Exercise

Author:Ashley Greene

“Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.”

Way Dance Profession Ballet

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”

Humans Children Joy Streets Dance Reactions Dancer Jumping

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.”

World Natural Special Talent Civilization Dance Divorced Natural World Reserved Special Talents

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“To dance is human, to polka is divine.”

Humans Divine Dance Polka

Author:K. D. Lang

“When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.”

Dream Dancing Dance

Book:D.V.

Source: D.V.

“All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.”

Artist Stuff Music Drama Musician Dance Conversion Dancer Etc Translations Choreographers

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.”

Thinking Transformation Constant Dance

Book:The Dancer and the Dance

Source: The Dancer and the Dance

“Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.”

Dance Dancer Threshold

Author:Judith Jamison

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.”

Mean Ends Dance Ballet Riddle

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

“As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.”

Way Natural Dancing Dance Unnatural

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

“And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.”

Inspirational Trying Stills War Dance Civil War Southern Twists Hippie

Author:Dick Gregory

“I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.”

Feelings Spirit Born Dance Erotic Ballerina Physique

Author:Natalia Makarova

“crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.”

Half One Thing Dancing Dance November Crawling

Author:Ethel Smyth

“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.”

Way Should Made Sometimes Enough Wanted Dies Passion Speak Wish Enjoy Behinds Saws Ten Beats Dancing Dance Notion Partners Nine Made It Necks Alas Lighters Delirious

Author:Ethel Smyth

“When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.”

Knows Way Love Firsts States Ready Like You Essence Dance Appearance Emptiness Glimpse Calmness Let It Go Readiness Just Let It Go

Book:Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

Source: Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”

Firsts I Can Might Remember Religious Class Praying Tables Dancing Dance Mistress Nursery Religious Experience

Book:Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood

“Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.”

Love Heart Littles Dream Humor Turns Love Is Gun Machines Dancing Dance Merry Sweet Love Miniatures Machine Guns Perky

Author:Matt Groening

“I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.”

People Inspirational Trying Community Walks Messages Dance Spread Missions Djs Dance Music

Author:David Guetta

“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.”

Ifs Enough Reality Mistake Style Higher Dancing Dance Ballet

Author:Fred Astaire

“Disco is just jitterbug.”

Justice Dance Disco

Author:Fred Astaire

“[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!”

Men Body Breaths Dance Notes Iron Controlled Fragility

Book:First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

Source: First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky

“I like very little to talk. There are many things I cannot say, I can only feel them and dance them.”

Feels Littles I Can Dance

Author:Micaela Flores Amaya

“Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.”

Feels Mind Real Motivational Roles Audience Dance Legs Orchestra Blueprints

Author:Linda Hamilton

“I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!”

Want Ends Shows Motivational Wanted Night Felt Stuff Sleep Stage Terrible Late Dance Shoes The End Of The Day Get Back Farmers Cows Show Business Sleep Late Milking Cows

Author:Gregory Hines

“I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.”

People Ifs Thinking Wanted Funny Understanding Mets Understood Dance Ecstasy Load Jumping Barns Methodists Dehydration

Author:Victoria Wood

“Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.”

Men Want Giving War Feet Birth Fit Men And Women Dance

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.”

Kind Pure Conscious Dance Dancer Incapable Formal Trance Formality

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.”

People I Can Seems Hours Bed Intention Dance Theatre Evening Things To Do Expecting Midnight Etiquette

Author:Robert Benchley

“The Gods have meant That I should dance And by the Gods I will!”

Should Dance

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.”

Believe Mother Morality Daughter Dance Mother Daughter

Author:Jose Bergamin

“The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.”

World Mind Humans Fear Dance Seven Human Mind Reserves Veils Shyness Outside World Salome

Author:Muriel Box

“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Sometimes Black White Wonder Audience Pieces Stage Movement Messages Dance Crowds Applause

Author:Judith Jamison

“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

Source: Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero

“Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!”

Wells Heart Forget Brother Higher Dance Legs Lifts My Brother Dancer Celebration Jubilation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.”

Humility Pride Dance Sigh

Author:Mason Cooley

“A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.”

Long Mad Dance Dancer Length Madmen

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

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