Dance Quotes - Page 16

• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Soul, Body

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• Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Eye, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Harvard University Press

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• My hope is to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.

  Dwight Rhoden

  Moving, Light, Provoking

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• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Forgotten Things, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• 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.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Mean, Practice

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• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Running, Fall

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Stars, Dancing

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• 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

  Years, Dancing, Ballet

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• We're a machine and we have to be worked in the same way we have to be fed.

  Twyla Tharp

  Machines, Way, Feds

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

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• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Breathing, Dancing, Pulse

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• I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.

  Lester Horton

  Knowledge, Exercise, Creating

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• You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?

  Mia Michaels

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Powerful

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Writing, Echoes, Poetry

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• Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

  Ginger Rogers

  Inspirational, Men, Talking

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

  Alan Watts

  God, Sports, Work

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

  Martha Graham

  Holy Ground, Dancing, Dancer

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• Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

  Rumi

  Dancing, Noise, Worship

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

  Frankie Manning

  Happy, Glory, Fame

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• See the music, hear the dance.

  George Balanchine

  "Balanchine Said" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

  Clive Barnes

  Dancing, Ballet, Royal

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• If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

  Katherine Dunham

  Hurt, Knows, Ifs

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• Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Moving, Dancing

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.78

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• Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

  Merrill Brockway

  Passion, Responsibility, Artist

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• The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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