Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
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.
I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
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