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“Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.”

Mind Real Bigs Father My Own Careers Dues Dancer Cuba Own Business Mind Your Own Business

Author:Cesar Romero

“The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."”

States Can Do Wonder Dancing Dance Tension Dancer Staying Superhuman Hypnosis Staying Power Superhuman Powers

Author:Curt Sachs

“A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.”

Children Littles Persons Dancing Dance Shoulders Dancer Continents

Author:Curt Sachs

“In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.”

Character Culture Force Social Levels Movement Higher Stronger Dancing Dance Contact Ties Dancer Stride Higher Level

Author:Curt Sachs

“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Mistake Watches Dancing Dance Careful Dancer Making Mistakes Ritual Wounded

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.”

Persons Body Black Religious White Behinds Century Performances Dancing Dance Dull Dancer Comparison Astonishing Condemnation Inarticulate

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.”

Art Dancing Dance Dancer Introducing

Book:The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton

Source: The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton

“A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.”

Character Nations Dancing Dance Dancer

Author:Confucius

“I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.”

Looks Moments Stuff Sides Rocks Identity Sweet Tough Breathe Dancer Rock N Roll Skirts Choreography Wigs Harlem Stylist Back In The Day Slits Spanish Harlem

Author:Ronnie Spector

“The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd...and saw the show for a moment as a jewel...like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness.”

“To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.”

May Mean Time Differences Groups Particular Dancing Technique Rhythm Phrases Dancer Temperament Thorough Unison Accentuate

Author:Florenz Ziegfeld

“I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.”

World Art Dream Prove Tradition Hollywood Artistic Dancer Traveled Belly Refined Expressive Belly Dance

Author:Nadia Gamel

“Dancers are both athletes and artists.”

Art Artist Dancing Athlete Dancer

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.”

Want Dancing Dancer One Word Tombstone

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.”

Cases Streets Style Wind Wall Dancing Profession Driving Dancer Belly Taxi Traders

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.”

Movement Demand Dancing Dancer Cardinals Lightness

Author:Frank Thiess

“Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.”

Dancing Dancer Just Dance Great Dance

Author:Wendy Buonaventura

“It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.”

Beautiful Simple Steps Sight Dancing Patterns Painful Complicated Dancer Beginners Beautiful Sights

Author:Dodie Smith

“I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.”

Matter Honesty Terrible Ears Who I Am Dancer What Matters Geek Hometown Freckles

Book:Learning to Sing

Source: Learning to Sing

“I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.”

People Men Persons Perfect Personality Parks Being The Best Dancer

Author:Jay Park

“Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.”

Art Ideas Artist Imagination Creative Magic Spring Blessed Invention Dancer New Ideas Coincidence Creative Art New Inventions

Author:Vivianne Crowley

“I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.”

Dancer Ardent

Author:Georg Brandes

“I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.”

Should Philosophy Opinion Teach Asking Dancer Invited Tryouts

Author:Daryl Morey

“Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.”

People Ifs Persons Two Moving Next Difficult Steps Impossible Movement Couple Conversation Approach Dancing Following Dancer Unexpected New Approach Next Move

Author:James W. Pennebaker

“For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.”

Form Prayer Indian Dancer Costumes Eagles Inseparable

Author:Jamake Highwater

“Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.”

Thinking Feels Mistake Dancer Biggest Mistake

Author:Michael Jackson

“A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.”

Artist Students Poet Musician Fellows Jazz Rounds Athlete Singers Combination Comedian Dancer Mathematician Jazz Music Entertainers Educator Diplomats Jazz Musician Orators

Author:Steve Lacy

“I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.”

Thinking Young Wonderful Childhood Dancer Fatherhood

Author:Suzanne Farrell

“In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.”

States Shows Left Force Tables Dancer Minimum Indispensable Globalization Garments Cabaret

Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.”

Men Used Seeing Athlete Rhythm Dancer Rays Slips Boxers Epitome Used To Love Great Athlete Pep Mesmerized

Author:Emanuel Steward

“I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.”

Thinking Way Needs Feels Real Girl Fun My Own Feet Comfortable Tough Built Skins Legs Feel Good Dirty Having Fun Dancer Going Away Chicks Bruises Bruised Real Girl

Author:Nina Dobrev

“A good dancer is an educated one, so dont abandon school.”

School Educated Dancer Abandon

Author:Deborah Bull

“Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.”

Soul Moments Body Light Spirit Artist Energy Heaven Darkness Hell Land Fields Sweet Lovers Shapes Disappear Your Body Surrender Your Soul Dancer Shifting Seekers Heaven And Hell

Author:Gabrielle Roth

“I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.”

People Ifs Knows Kids Wanted Audience Dancing Response Enjoyed Performing Dancer

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.”

“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.”

“People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.”

People Wish Movement Painter Dancer Call Me Capture

Author:Edgar Degas

“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.”

Soul Body Music Dance Manifestation Dancer Luminous Choreography Ballet Dancer Ballet Dancing

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.”

May Light Turns Sun Broken Shadow Blue Winter Flying Dancer Pale Roof Breeze Weeping December Skirts Sweeping Barns Swirls Weeping Willows

Author:Ted Kooser

“The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.”

Long Real Body School Spirit Grace Type Walking Dancing Dance Legs Dancer Affected Ballet Toes Ballet Dancer Ballet Dance Supple Ballet Dancing

Author:Isadora Duncan

“I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?”

Thinking Knows Persons I Can Mother Parent Bears Average Actresses Singers Handle Supposed To Be Dancer Performers Better Person

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.”

Ifs Persons Art Matter Wanted Creative Goes On Garden Dancer Mexico Creative Person Cactus

Author:Katherine Dunham

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

“Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.”

Knows Together Mother Strong Can Do Roles Wife Models Who You Are Currents Singers Dancer Role Models Balanced Strong Women Good Mother Beyonce

Author:Sunidhi Chauhan

“Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.”

Ifs Reality Truth Lying Term Comfort Truth Is Dancer Supplies Platitudes Lies Truth Stasis

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.”

Different Body Girl Black Rocks Hair Empowering Dancer Empowering Women Ballerina Black Girl

Author:Misty Copeland

“You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.”

Courses Actors Movie Dancer Crash Tango

Author:Robert Duvall

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

“I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'”

Wells Actors Bits Singers Dancer Orphan

Author:Dick Van Dyke

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