| "The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words." -- Bill Irwin "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of thier passion." --Unknown "It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." -- Shanna LaFleur "To touch to move to inspire-this is the true gift of dance." -- Aubrey Lynch "I do everything I know how in a dance." -- Twyla Tharp "Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery." -- Martha Graham "There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." -- Vicki Baum "Dance can give the inarticulate a voice." -- Pamela Brown "On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined." -- Lord Byron "There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a bit of good." -- Edwin Denby "Dancing is the poetry of the foot." -- John Dryden "Its what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun the joy of dance." -- Martha Graham "Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain." -- Martha Graham "The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." -- Mata Hari "He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor." -- Hindu Proverb "To sing well and to dance is to be well educated." -- Plato "The Ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact with our time." -- Uknown "Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming." -- Agnes DeMille "Dance 'til the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance 'til you drop." -- W.H. Auden "Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be it's own reward." --Jane Austin "Dance now. Think later. That's the natural order." -- Samuel Beckett "Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing." -- James Brown "Dance can give the inarticulate a voice." -- Pamela Brown "Dance every performance as if it were your last." -- Erik Bruhn "Dancing is movement, and movement is life." -- Ludmilla Chiriaeff "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing, than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." -- E.E. Cummings "Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy--it becomes possible."-- Agnes De Mille "I see dancing being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words." -- Ruth St. Denis "There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good." -- Edwin Denby "Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself." -- Jean Dubuffet "Dancing: The highest intelligence in the freest body." -- Isadora Duncan "If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it." -- Isadora Duncan "Learning to walk will set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express your whole self, the person you are." -- Melissa Hayden "Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that: your dancing spirit." -- Judith Jamison "Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience." -- M. Louis "I should not believe in a God who does not dance." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul." -- Pushkin "The people who do not dance are the dead." -- Jerry Rose "Dance is about neverending aspiration" -- Judith Jamison "The curse of a dancer is to be sitting on a cold rehersal room floor" -- Steven Jeffries "Whatever you feel just dance it." -- Center Stage |
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