Dance Quotes - Page 17

• Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

  Murray Louis

  Light, Dancing, Ballet

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• I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Running, Witty

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• In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

  Louise Brooks

  Dream, Cripples, Crippled

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Dancing, Rewards

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

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• There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  Solomon

  Bible, Biblical, Dancing

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Art, Creativity

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

  August Bournonville

  Skills, Effort, Height

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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  It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.52, St. Martin's Press

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• If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

  Agnes de Mille

  Song, Looks, Attention

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• The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

  Curt Sachs

  Mother, Art, Dancing

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• Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Mood, Human Life

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• As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ballet, Vibrate

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• The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Beautiful, Art, Men

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• Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Art, Unity, Movement

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• I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

  Merce Cunningham

  Thinking, Transformation, Constant

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

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• Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Dialect, Language, Conventional Wisdom

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• dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

  Twyla Tharp

  Running, Art, Jumping

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Ballet, Denial, Body

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• The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

  Gerald Jonas

  Attitude, People, Dancing

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• If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

  Ovid

  Voice, Dancing, Arms

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• Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Movement, Individual

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Silence, Sound, Rhythm

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• When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Luxury, Enjoy, Witch Of Portobello

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