Dance Quotes - Page 23

• Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

  Robert Hayden

  Voice, Spokes, Shore

  Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press

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• I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.

  Venus Williams

  Dancing, Feels, Right Now

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• To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

  Agnes de Mille

  Ideas, Space, Tea

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

  Agnes de Mille

  Girl, Running, Boys

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• I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

  Twyla Tharp

  Workout, Morning, Coffee

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Beats

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.46, Heinemann

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• The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

  Evan Esar

  Firsts, Modern, Modern Dance

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• I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

  Martha Graham

  Dancer, Chosen

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• Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

  Martha Graham

  Hard Work, People, Bones

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

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• Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

  Martha Graham

  Wings, Body, Remember

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• Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Children, Jumping, Joy

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• Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Ballet, Way, Profession

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• To dance is human, to polka is divine.

  K. D. Lang

  Divine, Polka, Humans

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• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

  Mata Hari

  Movement, Sacred, Temples

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• I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.

  Ethel Smyth

  Passion, Dancing, Wish

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• The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

  Curt Sachs

  Hypnosis, Dancing, Wonder

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• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

  Curt Sachs

  Children, Dancing, Littles

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• Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

  Ann Reinking

  Real, Flames, Long

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• It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Body, Spirit

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• The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

  Curt Sachs

  Children, Twilight, Dancing

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• If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

  Curt Sachs

  Play, Dancing, Important

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• The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

  Curt Sachs

  Men, Opposites, Play

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Men, Rocks, Years

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• Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Needs, Witness

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