Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than of simple copying. We repeat the movements of our teachers until we can duplicate them exactly, until, in a sense, we have absorbed the teacher's mastery into ourselves. Artistic technique must be fully integrated into the cells of our bodies if we are to use it to express what is in our hearts, and this takes many years of practice.
I've sought out several dance teachers-shaman-like women dance teachers-to get in touch with the mystical through movement.
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you... I don't call them chick flicks.
I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.
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