Dance Quotes - Page 9

• All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

  Martha Graham

  Love, Dancing, Live In The Moment

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Art, Positivity, Essence

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

  Aime Cesaire

  Children, Sunday, Sky

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• Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Freedom, Dancing, Body

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

  Crazy Legs

  Motivational, Practice, Progress

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• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  Gerald Arpino

  Inspirational, Fall, Dancing

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• Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

  Hanya Holm

  Inspirational, Dancing, Purpose

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• Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Basketball, Mean, Player

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• If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

  Anita Shreve

  Skating On Thin Ice, Might, Wells

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• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Scotch, Dancing, Hot

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

  Alarmel Valli

  Wine, Dancing, Ballet

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• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Dancing, Quitting, Ballerina

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• Even the ears must dance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dancing, Ballet, Ears

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

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Life And Love, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Party, Men, Dancing

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• Sing like no one is listening.
  Love like you’ve never been hurt.
  Dance like nobody’s watching,
  and live like it’s heaven on earth.

  Susanna Clarke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Teacher, Years, Miracle

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• Don't be afraid to be amazing.

  Andy Offutt Irwin

  Life, Meaningful, Famous Motivational

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Ballet Class, Discipline, Dancing

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• All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Children, Attitude, Dancing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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• Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

  Martha Graham

  Mean, Discipline, Dancing

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• Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

  Arlene Croce

  Eye, Mind, Ears

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

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• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Boys, Feet, Dancing

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• I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, Thinking, Dancing

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