Dance Quotes - Page 39

• Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

  Linda Hamilton

  Motivational, Real, Mind

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• The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Community, Movement

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• A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Feelings, Gathering

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Years, Dancing, Quality

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• At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

  Jamake Highwater

  Lying, Mean, Emotional

  "Dance: Rituals of Experience".

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• The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

  Jamake Highwater

  People, Dancing, Vision

  Jamake Highwater (1978). “Dance: rituals of experience”

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• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Dancing, Conscious

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• Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

  Jamake Highwater

  Gay, Doors, Europe

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA

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• White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Religious, White, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

  Jamake Highwater

  Religious, Art, Expression

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

  Gerald Jonas

  Angel, Circles, Dancing

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

  Gerald Jonas

  Writing, Men, White Man

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

  Gerald Jonas

  Couple, Dancing, Middle East

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dancing, Peers, Way

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• A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

  Gerald Jonas

  Lying, Dancing, Physicians

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• All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Should Have

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• So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

  Plato

  Men, Dancing, Educated

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• You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Ophelia

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.220, Classic Books Company

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• A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Dancing, Devil, Possession

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• Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Feet, Dancing, Camels

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• The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

  Carlo Blasis

  Art, Dancing, Introducing

  Carlo Blasis (1830). “The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton”, p.40

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• No sober person dances.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dancing, Sober, Persons

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

  Confucius

  Character, Dancing, Nations

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• It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

  Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

  Sacrifice, Men, Dancing

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• Come up and see me sometime.

  Mae West

  Dancing, Come Up

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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