Dance Quotes - Page 12

• Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Art, Dancing, Soul

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Nature

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• It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

  August Bournonville

  Exercise, Skills, Numbers

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• Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Education, Inspiration

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

  Louis Horst

  Dancing, Ballet, Matter

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• Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Heart, Eye, Long

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• God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

  George Balanchine

  Stealing, Ballet Teachers, Choreography

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• The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

  Martha Graham

  World

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• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  Carlo Blasis

  Art, Dancing, Looks

  "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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• But oh, she dances in such a way!
  No sun upon an Easter-day
  Is half so fine a sight.

  John Suckling

  Easter, Sight, Half

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37

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• I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

  Louise Brooks

  Dancing, Chaplin, Charlie

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• You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

  Deborah Bull

  Running, Cycling, Ideas

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• You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Mirrors, Practice, Faults

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• I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

  Graeme Murphy

  People, Groups, Movement

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• So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

  Deborah Bull

  Running, Eight, Long

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• I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Art, Categories

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Thinking, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  Jean Paul

  Running, Exercise, Climbing

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• O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
  Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

  Walter Scott

  War, Dancing, Lord

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 3)

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dancing, World, Fairy

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• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Feet, Wedding Day

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

  William Butler Yeats

  Angel, Flames, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

  Bill Irwin

  Powerful, Dancing, Ballet

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  You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated

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