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“Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.”

“The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.”

Way Inspirational Persons Teach Teacher Offers Wake Up Dancing Dance Hungry Educate Ballet Stimulation

Author:Murray Louis

“Dancing is as old as love.”

Dancing Dance

Author:Lucian

“The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.”

Voice Dance Lips Plenty Dancer

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

“The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.”

Ifs Should Seems Running Earth Spiritual Heaven Expression Dance Oneself Ballet Conveying

Book:A dance autobiography

Source: A dance autobiography

“Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.”

Mind Heart States Reality Seems Communication Essentials Behavior Transformation Dancing Dance Significant Daily Life State Of Mind Satisfying Immense Vocabulary Gypsy

Author:Kate Magowan

“It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.”

Ifs Knows Trying Believe Art Important Character Able Felt Imagine Honest Emotional Dance If I Could Triggers

Author:Graeme Murphy

“Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.”

Giving Next Steps Dance Next Steps

Author:Graeme Murphy

“Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.”

People Art Movement Communication Dance

Book:Dance now

Source: Dance now

“At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.”

Light Dance

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.”

Speak Dance Silent Conclusion

Author:Vaslav Nijinsky

“A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.”

Happenings Cat Dance Innocent Presentation

Author:Alwin Nikolais

“When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.”

Knows Two Three Class Audience Knowing Teacher Missing One Day Dance Ballet Two Days Choreographers Truancy

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.”

Soul Body My Family Dance

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.”

Movement Ego Dance Ballet Ecstatic

Author:Rajneesh

“All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.”

Ifs Want Artist Stars Fire Achieve Kings Competition Dance Deep Down True Artists

Author:Camille Paglia

“I danced from the moment I could stand.”

Moments Dance

Author:Anna Pavlova

“Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.”

Forget Ego Remains Dancing Dance Disappear Dancer

Author:Rajneesh

“Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.”

Wells Long Real Sometimes Emotion Dancing Dance Flames Ignite Old Love Conflicting Emotions

Author:Ann Reinking

“It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.”

Children Beautiful Known Lovers Ultimate Our Children Dance Your Children

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.”

Years Art Form Spirit Religious Consciousness Flower Dancing Dance Flesh Division Definite Religion And Art

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance.”

Knows Should Moving Language Heaven Hours Dance Rhythm Cosmic Orchestra Mystic Unheard

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.”

Real Body Space Messages Instruments Dance Urges Dependence Vistas

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.”

Dance Denial Urges Hinduism Specks Brahma

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.”

Fine Moon Fairs Dancing Dance Rounds Grass Altars Full Moon

Book:One Hundred Poems

Source: One Hundred Poems

“Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.”

Knows Art Force Wall Art Is Concerned Dance Boundaries Barriers Division Integrating Unifying

Author:Vempati Chinna Satyam

“Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.”

Men Art Whole Emotional Dance

Author:Ted Shawn

“I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.”

Ifs Men Wanted Speak Dance Profound Brown Pants Torso

Author:Ted Shawn

“Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.”

Men Humans Art Use Used Sound Movement Materials Stones Dance Woods Painter Works Of Art Composer Sculptors Raw Materials Pigment

Author:Ted Shawn

“Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.”

Soul Language Pure Dance

Author:Patrick Swayze

“A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.”

Way Humans Persons I Can Soul Found Human Beings Steps Dancing Dance Partners Release Dancer

Author:Patrick Swayze

“I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.”

Way Dream Energy Bits Process Becoming Let Me Dance Dancer Defining Becoming The Best Defining Myself

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.”

Dance

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.”

Want Two Different Real Motivational Energy Goal Imagination Produce Negative Overcoming Dance Excitement Choke Apprehension

Book:Push Comes to Shove

Source: Push Comes to Shove

“I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.”

Thinking Knows Moments Order Discovery Dance Organized Ballet

Author:Twyla Tharp

“It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.”

Difficult Dance Profession Dancer Justify

Author:Twyla Tharp

“This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.”

People Young Stupid Dance Passionate Pleasant Ballet Routes Very Stupid

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.”

Thinking Kids Can Do Chance Dance

Author:Twyla Tharp

“We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.”

Way Machines Dance Feds

Author:Twyla Tharp

“You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.”

Thinking Inspirational Believe Sides Tools Dancing Dance Accomplish Have Faith Faith In Yourself Have Faith In Yourself

Author:Twyla Tharp

“If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.”

Ifs Humans Body Stage Dance Ballet Abstraction Human Body

Author:Antony Tudor

“I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.”

Lasts Born Party Steps Grace Dresses Dancing Dance Evening Peculiar Butterfly Kangaroos Private Parts Sumptuous

Author:Mark Twain

“Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.”

Artist Creative Achievement Dance Labour Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Galina Ulanova

“What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.”

Mind Body Form Wonderful Ideals Dance Driven Greek Ballet Physicality Ballet Dance

Author:Edward Villella

“The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.”

Night Stars Hours Secret Sun Flower Grew Summer Dance Caught Sweetness Colorful Rainy Bouquets Summer Days Overcast Happy Summer

Book:The language of dance

Source: The language of dance

“Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.”

Men Dance Ballet Pants

Author:Robin Williams

“Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.”

Inspirational Wonderful Talent Dancing Dance

Author:Tad Williams

“And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.”

Dance Merry Fiddle Ireland And The Irish

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.”

Kind Two Sex Sound Common Wife Arms Daughter Dance Neighbor Innocent Characteristics Leap Participation Vicious

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.”

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