August Bournonville Quotes

• It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Exercise, Skills

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• The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Skills, Effort

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Expression

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Gymnastics, Hands

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

  August Bournonville

  Beautiful, Dance, Novelty

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Strive

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Joy, Weakness

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Demand

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Law, Taste

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Ought, Aspire

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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