Dance Quotes - Page 27

• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Our World, Aggravation

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

  Lucian

  Voice, Lips, Plenty

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Running, Spiritual, Expression

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

  Graeme Murphy

  Giving, Next Steps, Next

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• Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

  Jan Murray

  Art, Communication, People

  Jan Murray (1979). “Dance now”

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• I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

  Vaslav Nijinsky

  Speak, Silent, Conclusion

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• A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Cat, Innocent, Presentation

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• When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Teacher, Class, Two

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

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• We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Soul, Body, My Family

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

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• If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

  Rajneesh

  Feels, Knows, Asks

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• When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Ballet, Movement

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• All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

  Camille Paglia

  Kings, Stars, Artist

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• I danced from the moment I could stand.

  Anna Pavlova

  Moments

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

  Rajneesh

  Dancing, Ego, Forget

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• Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

  Ann Reinking

  Real, Flames, Long

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• You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Love Life, Creativity

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• To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.

  Sherman Paul

  Dancing, Movement, Facts

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• Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

  Andrew Asnes

  Adversity, Dancing, Ballet

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• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  Anna Paskevska

  Children, Discipline, Grace

  Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

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• There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.

  Kanak Rele

  Suffering, Dazzle, Taste

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• I have always added dance to my productions. When I was directing theatre, I added dance sequences where they didn't exist in the play. I think dance is the ultimate form of expression.

  Valerie Weiss

  Thinking, Expression, Play

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• Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dancing, Ballet, Legs

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22

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• They danced by the light of the moon.

  Edward Lear

  Moon, Light, Dancing

  "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" l. 21 (1871)

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• The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dancing, Faces, Limbs

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

  Merce Cunningham

  Discipline, Dancing, Essentials

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