Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.
Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.
It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.
The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.
If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.
Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
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.
Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
I am a cloud - in trousers.
Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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.
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.
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.
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?
David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
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.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
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.
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