Dance Quotes - Page 27

• It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

  Deborah Jowitt

  Beach, Sand, Things To Do

  Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine

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• I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

  Gene Kelly

  New York, Good Man, Style

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• When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

  Gene Kelly

  Motivational, Men, Roger

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• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Determination, Artist, Animal

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Vocabulary, Color, Dancing

  Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  People, Ballet, Going Out

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• Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Years, Giving

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• When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.

  Samuel L. Lewis

  Thinking, Silence, Doctrine

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• When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

  Maris Liepa

  Ballet, Weight, Causes

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• Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

  Jose Limon

  Tired, Dancing, Pompous

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Our World, Aggravation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

  Lucian

  Voice, Lips, Plenty

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Running, Spiritual, Expression

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

  Graeme Murphy

  Giving, Next Steps, Next

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• Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

  Jan Murray

  Art, Communication, People

  Jan Murray (1979). “Dance now”

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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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• We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Soul, Body, My Family

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

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• If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

  Rajneesh

  Feels, Knows, Asks

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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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• I danced from the moment I could stand.

  Anna Pavlova

  Moments

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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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