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• All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Children, Attitude, Dancing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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• Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dancing, Toes, Attention

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• When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  People, Dancing, Three

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• I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, Thinking, Dancing

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Party, Men, Dancing

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• Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Basketball, Mean, Player

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• Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

  George Balanchine

  Motivational, Thinking, Interesting

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• Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

  Arlene Croce

  Eye, Mind, Ears

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

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• Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Dancing, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

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• 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.

  George Sava

  Men, Expression, Dancing

  "This thing called ballet".

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• So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Dancing, Steps

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

  Jose Limon

  Art, Sweat, Effort

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• Polka will never die.

  Jim Butcher

  Forever, Polka, Dies

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.327, Penguin

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• The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

  Heath Ledger

  Inspirational, Fun, Long

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• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dancing, Looks, Vigor

  "The American Dance" (1935)

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• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Thinking, Feet

  "The Routledge Dance Studies Reader". Book by Alexandra Carter and Janet O'Shea, p. 96, 1998.

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• He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

  Sam Manekshaw

  Leadership, Drinking, Army

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• Classical ballet will never die.

  Ninette de Valois

  Art, Ballet, Classic

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• Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ballet, Lost

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• Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

  Lester Beall

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Art, Night, Years

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• Let's face the music and dance.

  Irving Berlin

  Dancing, Faces, Music And Dance

  1936 'Let's Face the Music and Dance', in the film Follow the Fleet.

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• The only way to do it is to do it.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dancing, Way

  Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars

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• But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Reality, Dancing, Denial

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• Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

  Anne Lamott

  Ideas, Dancing, Turns

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.35, Penguin

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