Dance Quotes - Page 30

• If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Needs, If I Could

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• They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Long, Jazz

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• One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

  Rick Dees

  Reality, Roles, Attention

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• There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Order, Ballet

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• It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

  Alla Osipenko

  Art, Moving, Temptation

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• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.

  Doris Humphrey

  Art, Believe, Unique

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• As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

  Mary Oliver

  Long, Dancing, Break

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.18, Penguin

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• Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Meditation, Messages, Metaphor

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• If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

  Peggy Lee

  Dancing, My Friends, Ifs

  Song: Is That All There Is?, 2003

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• Dance on the edge of mystery.

  Alan Cohen

  Dancing, Mystery, Edges

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• Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

  Rumi

  Peace, Passion, Dancing

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• Dancing is the body made poetic.

  Ernst Bacon

  Dancing, Ballet, Body

  Ernst Bacon (2013). “Notes on the Piano”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

  Anna Pavlova

  Spiritual, Expression, Dancing

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• Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

  Garth Fagan

  Thinking, Creative, Black

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• I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Law, Heaven

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• Do the steps that you've been shown,
  by everyone you've ever known,
  until the dance becomes your very own.

  Jackson Browne

  Dancing, Steps, Known

  Song: For A Dancer, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974

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• I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

  Frankie Manning

  People, Taught, Steps

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• This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

  Alicia Alonso

  Beautiful, Art, Life Is

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• I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

  Fred Astaire

  Feet, Messages, Empty

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• If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Ballet, Movement

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• I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

  Fred Astaire

  Dancing, Tails, Spares

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

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• Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

  Fred Astaire

  Stage, Terror, Slippery

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• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Time, Memorable

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• Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Ballet, Today

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• Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Athlete, Mean

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