Dance Quotes - Page 31

• There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Order, Ballet

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• It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

  Alla Osipenko

  Art, Moving, Temptation

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• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.

  Doris Humphrey

  Art, Believe, Unique

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• As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

  Mary Oliver

  Long, Dancing, Break

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.18, Penguin

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• Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Meditation, Messages, Metaphor

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• If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

  Peggy Lee

  Dancing, My Friends, Ifs

  Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003

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• Dance on the edge of mystery.

  Alan Cohen

  Dancing, Mystery, Edges

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• Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Dancing

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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dancing, Ballet, Body

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

  Jeff Allen

  Practice, Muscles, Repetition

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• A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level.

  Donnie Burns

  Leader, Levels, Partners

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• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Mean, Cutting, Practice

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• Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

  Donnie Burns

  Sports, Art, Achievement

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• The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

  Donnie Burns

  Teacher, Knowing, Best Relationship

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• Who expects trouble gets trouble.

  Donnie Burns

  Trouble

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• A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

  Donnie Burns

  Dancing, Way, Left

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• If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

  Donnie Burns

  Gym Motivation, Failing, Great Bodybuilding

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Swimming, Cinema, Love Poetry

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• I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.

  Leslie Browne

  Shoes, Want, Feels

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Selfish, Ballet

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• You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

  Darcey Bussell

  Dream, Cutting, Night

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• Ballet is only good when it is great.

  Arlene Croce

  Ballet, Ballet Dance, Ballet Dancer

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”, Random House Inc

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• If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

  Arlene Croce

  Years, Two, Dancing

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• It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

  Arlene Croce

  Ballet, Technique, Body

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.606, Macmillan

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• It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

  Siobhan Davies

  Play, Influence, Existence

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