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“There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.”

Mind Firsts Kind Made Soul Feelings Body Inspiration Three Emotion Dancing Dance Rhythm Remembered Dancer Luminous Concentrating Just Dance Drills Fluidity Pointe Dancers

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.”

Today Passion Can Do Movement Dancing Dance Technique Dancer Phenomenal Just Dance

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.”

Knows Years Materials Ten Instruments Dancing Dance Dancer Ballet Just Dance Pointe Dancers

Author:Martha Graham

“Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.”

Ifs Matter Interest Interesting Dancing Dance Just Dance Good Dance

Author:Louis Horst

“The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.”

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Author:Bill Irwin

“Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.”

Art Soul Moments Dancing Dance Just Dance Short Dance Ballet Dance Art Dance

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“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.”

“Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”

Attention Dancing Dance Toes Just Dance Music And Dance Short Dance Dandy Pointe Pointe Dancers

Author:Agnes de Mille

“In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.”

Beautiful Miracle Dancing Dance Forgotten Bones Dancer Reverence Delicate Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Beautiful Dance Forgotten Things

Book:Blood Memory

Source: Blood Memory

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“The dance is the mother of all languages.”

Mother Language Dancing Dance Just Dance Art Dance

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?”

Knows Feels Two Together Moving Three Love Is Half Minutes Dancing Dance Affair Partners Ballet Love Affair Just Dance Corresponding Triangles Music And Dance Dance Partner

Author:Frankie Manning

“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.”

Looks Wonder Mystery Awareness Function Dancing Dance Variety Sensations Affirmation Spectators Vigor Impart Dance Life Wonder Of Life Dance Is Life

Author:Martha Graham

“Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?”

Years Art Lasts Night Dies Years Ago Remains Dancing Dance Forgotten Productions Excited Decades Glorious Dancer Retiring Last Night Just Dance Ballerina Choreographers Art Dance Last Dance

Author:Jack Anderson

“Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.”

Thinking Men Speak Emotion Brain Singing Dancing Dance Dancer Carrie Ecstasy Just Dance Thinking Man

Book:My Life (Revised and Updated)

Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)

“Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.”

Art Moments Left Memories Art Is Dancing Dance Dancer Ballet Art Dance

Author:Martha Graham

“Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.”

Should Mean Ends Action Player Basketball Concerned Dancing Dance Basketball Player

Author:Alwin Nikolais

“Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.”

Humans Body Form Expression Dancing Dance Realization Artistic Human Body Artistic Expression

Author:Igor Youskevitch

“The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!”

Ifs Inspirational Inspiration Fall Audience Lucky Weakness Dancing Dance Rounds Appeals Ballet Choreography Choreographers Great Dance

Author:Gerald Arpino

“I do everything I know how in a dance.”

Knows Know How Dancing Dance

Author:Twyla Tharp

“To live and to laugh require a reason. But dancing is so close to one's guts that it has no reason and yet it needs none; it's physical, and as a source of good cheer it is end endless.”

Needs Ends Reason Laughing Source Dancing Dance Endless Guts No Reason Cheer Good Cheer

Author:Toni Bentley

“Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”

Believe God Would Be Mistake Music Dancing Dance Ghouls Without Music Music Life

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?”

Dancing Dance Ballet Alice Adventures In Wonderland

Author:Lewis Carroll

“If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!”

Ifs Needs Dancing Dance If I Could

Author:Isadora Duncan

“I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.”

Death Forget Forever Cutting Dancing Clever Tricks Grim Reaper Grim Reaper

Author:Danny Elfman

“If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?”

Ifs World Use Law Religion Planets Creatures Dancing Wave Surface Mathematical Obedience Particles Living Creatures

Book:The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings

Source: The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings

“What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.”

Real Wealth Business Rich Subjects Fellows Dancing Real Life Being Real Get Rich Getting High

Author:Paul Volcker

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

Light Audience Dancing Dance Dancer Ballet Just Dance Ballet Dance Dance Performance

Author:Murray Louis

“The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.”

Way Believe Art Reason Simple Emotion Movement Unique Aspect Dignity Function Dancing Dance Deeper Senses Dancer Nerves Justification Volume Incomparable

Author:Doris Humphrey

“Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.”

Soul Light Music Broken Dancing Dance Just Dance Dance Music Quirks Music And Dance Short Dance

Book:Moral essays

Source: Moral essays

“As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.”

Long Break Dancing Dance

Book:A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Source: A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.”

Ifs My Friends Dancing Dance

Author:Peggy Lee

“Dance on the edge of mystery.”

Mystery Dancing Dance Edges

Author:Alan Cohen

“Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.”

Passion Peace Break Pieces Dancing Dance Abandon Worldly

Author:Rumi

“Dancing is the body made poetic.”

Made Body Dancing Dance Poetic Ballet

Book:Notes on the Piano

Source: Notes on the Piano

“You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.”

Lying Sides Impossible Mouths Direct Dancing Dance

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.”

People Mind May Has Beens Body Young Known Materials Months Balls Dancing Dance Passing Passings Instance Injury Description

Book:Emma

Source: Emma

“I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.”

Fall Dancing Dance Get Up Falling Down

Author:Martha Graham

“I should not believe in a God who does not dance.”

Should Believe Doe Dancing Dance Just Dance

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The way people move is their autobiography in motion.”

People Way Moving Dancing Dance Autobiography Music And Dance

Author:Gerry Spence

“Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.”

Wish Pleasure Seasons Dancing Dance Innocent Alas Amusement Relish

Book:Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations

Source: Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations

“When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.”

Long Different Steps Goes On Lessons One Day Long Time Dancing Dance Ballet Just Dance Music And Dance Art Dance Ballet Class Dance Steps

Author:Bill Austin

“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”

Pleasure Dancing Dance Senses Rational Dancer Display Gestures

Author:Saint Augustine

“First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.”

Ifs Firsts Said Prayer Lucky Dancing Dance Sweat Our Prayers Just Dance

Author:George Balanchine

“The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.”

Looks Art Stones Dancing Dance Dancer Plus Execution Ultras Adagio

Author:Carlo Blasis

“It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.”

Done Care Numbers Depends Exercise Skills Dancing Dance Just Dance

Author:August Bournonville

“I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.”

Dancing Dance Charlie Chaplin

Author:Louise Brooks

“The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.”

Humans Death Animal Dying Dancing Dance Edges Graves Human Animal

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.”

Turns England Dancing Dance France Beloved Pale Just Dance Snail

Book:Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия

Source: Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия

“Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.”

People Giving Has Beens Young Spirit Natural Animal Dancing Dance Rational Amusement Moses Just Dance Animal Spirits

Book:Advice to Young Men

Source: Advice to Young Men