Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Dancing appears glamorous, 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 its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing.
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
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