Dance Quotes - Page 14

• Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

  Jiri Kylian

  Teacher, Ballet Class, Perfection

  "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

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• The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

  Murray Louis

  Inspirational, Teacher, Dancing

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• You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Ballet, Pants

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

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• Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes obliged to conform; and then they should be able to do it well. And though I would not have you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Silly, People, Dancing

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• All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

  Luis de la Fuente

  Expression, Dancing, Circus

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• Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You gotta hold the frame.

  Eleanor Bergstein

  Space, Dancing, Looks

  "Dirty Dancing". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Love Is, Feet, Giving

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• I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

  Gene Kelly

  Motivational, Summer, Jobs

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• I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

  Gregory Hines

  Dancing, Parent, Alive

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• A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.

  Marcia Siegel

  Inspirational, Ideas, Dancing

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• The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

  Gerald Jonas

  Couple, Moving, Dancing

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

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• Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder.

  Gwen Verdon

  Sex, Eye, Dancing

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

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• I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

  Alexa Vega

  Dancing, Hips, Belly

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

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• My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

  Gene Kelly

  Mother, Jobs, School

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• I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

  Alvin Ailey

  Girl, Long, Arms

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• I always want to have more dancers in my company.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dancer, Want, Company

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• No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

  Alvin Ailey

  Writing, Matter, Enough

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• I have the same opinion of dances that physicians have of mushrooms: the best of them are good for nothing.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mushrooms, Dancing, Physicians

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dancing, Soul, Ballet

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• Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hands, Ideas, Knowing

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• I felt that I didn't want to be in show business anymore. I felt that I wanted to be a farmer. I was milking cows and shoveling terrible stuff and working all day. By the end of the day, all I wanted was my tap shoes - I thought, 'What am I doing? I better get back where I belong on the stage where we work at night and can sleep late!

  Gregory Hines

  Motivational, Sleep, Night

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• Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Dancing, Lasts, Last Words

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• Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

  John Dryden

  Ballet Class, Feet, Dancing

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

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