Dance Quotes - Page 28

• Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Moving, Boys

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

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• The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

  Curt Sachs

  Expression, Dancing, Joy

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• The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

  Curt Sachs

  Animal, Zest, Dancing

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• In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.

  Curt Sachs

  Country, Loss, Self

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• It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Body, Spirit

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• Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

  Curt Sachs

  Giving, Dancing, Ecstasy

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• The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

  Curt Sachs

  Children, Twilight, Dancing

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• The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

  Curt Sachs

  Hypnosis, Dancing, Wonder

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• A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

  Curt Sachs

  Children, Dancing, Littles

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• If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

  Curt Sachs

  Play, Dancing, Important

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• The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

  Curt Sachs

  Circles, People, Dancing

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• Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

  Curt Sachs

  Circles, Dancing, Culture

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• Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

  Curt Sachs

  Wall, Dancing, Four

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• The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.

  Curt Sachs

  Men, Opposites, Play

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Men, Rocks, Years

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• Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

  Curt Sachs

  Dancing, Needs, Witness

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• Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

  Twyla Tharp

  Easy, Easy Life, Knows

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• It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Thinking, Arrogant

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

  Twyla Tharp

  Inspirational, Gone, Ephemeral

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• Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, New York, Medical Knowledge

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dad, War

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• I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

  Carrie Underwood

  Inspirational, House, Ready

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

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• If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

  Tom Vilsack

  Inspirational, Prayer, Rain

  "Atheists: Obama Administration Out Of Line To Pray For Rain" by Zeke Miller, www.buzzfeed.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Inspirational, Acting, World

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• Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Inspirational, Way, Intense

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