"Dance isn't something that can be explained in
words. It has to be danced." -Paige Arden
"Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be
it's own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different." -Jane Austen
"Dance is music made visible." -George Balanchine
"Someone once said that dancers work just as hard
as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time." -George Balanchine
"There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing
is one of them." -Vicki Baum
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else.
I only try to dance better than myself." -Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Dancing can reveal the mystery that music conceals."
-Charles Baudelaire
"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order."
-Samuel Beckett
"Dance can give the inarticulate a voice." -Pamela
Brown
"Just remember when you're not practicing that
someone somewhere is and when you meet them, they will win." -Jacques D'Amboise
"Dance, an art form; the body, an instrument.
Learn to play the instrument so you can master the art form." -Debbie Dee
"Dance is a little insanity that does us all alot
of good." -Edward Demby
"You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy
it, all you have to do is look at it." -Edwin Demby
"When you dance, you don't sweat, you glow." -Didi
"Dancing is the poetry of the foot." -John Dryden
"Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing
on draws nearer to oneself." -Jean Dubuffet
"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 rythm 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."
-Isadora Duncan
"If I could tell you what it meant, there would
be no point in dancing it." -Isadora Duncan
"Plie is the first thing you learn and the last
thing you master." -Suzanne Farrell
"Dancing appears glamourous, easy, delightful.
But the path to Paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even
in it's sleep. There are times if complete frustration, there are daily small deaths." -Martha Graham
"The physical language of the body is so much
more powerful than words." -Bill Irwin
"Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk
about. Dance is to dance." -Peter Saint James
"If you want to dance seriously, do. You must
think about it day and night, dream about it, desire it." -Christa Justus
"Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and
energy so I could have confidence in myself." -Edward Liang
"Even the ears must dance." -Natalie Makarova
"...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily
on stage. What I loved was to sweat and feel every single pore open up." -Peter Martins
"Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes
possible." -Agnes de Mille
"Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop."~W. H. Auden
"A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured
speech."~Francis Bacon
"The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking
at yourself."~George Balanchine
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in
giving pleasure."~Mikhail Baryshnikov
"Ballet is not technique but a way of expression
that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other."~George Borodin
"While I dance I cannot judge. I cannot hate. I cannot seperate
myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance."~Hans Bos
"So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to
dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance."~Jacques d'Amboise"
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body."~Isadora
Duncan
"There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional
dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries".-D. Gere
"Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without
the true soul of the dancer."~Sylvie Guillem
"Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can
be another thing."~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
"Our arms start from the back because they were once wings."-Martha
Graham
"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
"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
