Dance Performance Quotes - Page 2

• When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, People, Dancing

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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• ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Skills, Dancing

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Dance, Ballet Class, Feet

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

  Martha Graham

  Positive, Uplifting, Dance

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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• Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

  Christopher Morley

  Girl, Dance, Men

  Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

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

  Alarmel Valli

  Dance, Wine, Dancing

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• You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

  Howard Thurston

  Dance, Heart, Eye

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• A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  Dance, People, Ballet

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• People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.

  Jose Parla

  Fun, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

  Nita Ambani

  Father, Next Day, Numbers

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