Fun Stuff
"Dance is the loftiest, most moving, most beautiful of the arts, because it is not a mere translation or abstraction of life; it is life itself!"-Martha Grahm
"Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing."-Martha Graham
"Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery."-Martha Graham
"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."-Martha Graham
"Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather."-Martha Graham
"Our arms start from the back because they were once wings."-Martha Graham
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word."-Mata Hari
"Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express your whole self, the person you are."-Melissa Hayden
"He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor."-Hindu proverb
"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."-Louis Horst
"The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words."-Bill Irwin
"People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut-outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell."-Susan Jaffe
"Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance."-Peter Saint James
"The trained dancer must not only have grace and elegance, but also the leap of an Olympic hurdler, the balance of a tight-rope walker and panther-like strength and agility."-Camilla Jessel
"If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream about it,-desire it."-Christa Justus
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer".-Shanna LaFleur
"Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself."-Edward Liang
"Thousands of emotions well up inside me through out the day. They are released when I dance".-Abraham Lincony
"Striving for connection with the audience is essential because you are in the moment; it is a give and take relationship. Catching someone's eye during a performance makes it more special"-Aubrey Lynch
"To touch, to move, to inspire-this is the true gift of dance."-Aubrey Lynch
"Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do."-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."-Shirley MacLaine
"...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up"-Peter Martins
"The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads."-Herman Melville
"Technique--bodily control--must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression."-La Meri
"Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible"-Agnes de Mille
"Many other women kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion."-Agnes de Mille
"To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."-Agnes de Mille
"Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming."-Agnes de Mille
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Master technique and then forget about it and be natural."-Anna Pavlova