Dance Quotes - Page 24

• 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 oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

  Curt Sachs

  Circles, People, Dancing

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• When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Inspirational, Forget Everything, Feels

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

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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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• They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Moon, Light, Dancing

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

  Merce Cunningham

  Discipline, Dancing, Essentials

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• The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

  Curt Sachs

  Animal, Zest, Dancing

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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 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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• I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Speak, Silent, Conclusion

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• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Cat, Innocent, Presentation

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• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Teacher, Class, Two

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

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• When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Ballet, Movement

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• All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

  Camille Paglia

  Kings, Stars, Artist

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

  Rajneesh

  Dancing, Ego, Forget

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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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• Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Moving, Boys

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

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• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

  Curt Sachs

  Expression, Dancing, Joy

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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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• Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

  Curt Sachs

  Giving, Dancing, Ecstasy

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• In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

  Curt Sachs

  Country, Loss, Self

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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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• Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

  Curt Sachs

  Circles, Dancing, Culture

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

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Needs, Witness

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