Dance Quotes - Page 18

• Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Dancing, Perfection, Soul

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• Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Heaven, Knows

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• It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Silence, Sound, Rhythm

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• The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

  Pearl Primus

  Life, Strong, Wings

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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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• 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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• Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

  Igor Youskevitch

  Expression, Dancing, Realization

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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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• Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

  Socrates

  Body, Easy, Should

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• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  Ted Shawn

  Art, Men, Sound

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• We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

  Harold Nicholas

  Style, Footwork, Dancer

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

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• At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Light

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• Many a maiden,
  With white feet glancing light as air,
  Made happy music through the gloom.

  Euripides

  Light, Air, White

  "The Trojan Women".

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• Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Being Yourself, Ballet, Energy

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

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• I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Dancing, Saws

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• David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

  Agrippina Vaganova

  Expression, Technique, Doe

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• In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

  Curt Sachs

  Character, Ties, Dancing

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• I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dancing, Singing, Tape

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• Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Inspirational, Children, Struggle

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• In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

  Plato

  Order, Dancing, Soldier

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• Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

  Mary Anthony

  Moving, Dancing, Joy

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• I am a cloud - in trousers.

  George Balanchine

  Clouds, Ballet, Trousers

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• Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

  Bob Fosse

  Audience

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

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• It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Believe, Character

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• Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

  Kate Magowan

  Communication, Heart, Reality

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