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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

  Agnes de Mille

  Giving, Modern, Sinister

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• It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

  Ninette de Valois

  Europe, Fundamentals, Steps

  "Ninette de Valois: An Idealist Without Illusions".

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• Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Character, Firsts, Dancer

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• First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

  Ninette de Valois

  Learning, Past, Important

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• Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

  Ninette de Valois

  Done, Firsts, Arise

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• We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

  Ninette de Valois

  Giving, Attention, Wonderful

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• You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

  Ninette de Valois

  Feet, Steps, Can Do

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Ballet, Progress, Attention

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• I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dancing, Quality, Energy

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• If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

  Isadora Duncan

  Real, Past, Wind

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

  Isadora Duncan

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Children

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• My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

  Isadora Duncan

  Art, Taken, Years

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Soul, Together, Movement

  Isadora Duncan (1909). “The Dance”

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Sleep, Expression, Profound

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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Should Have, Tragedy, Sixteen

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

  Katherine Dunham

  People, Dancing, Made

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• It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Beautiful, Children, Lovers

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• It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Religious, Art, Flower

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• The Gods have meant
  That I should dance
  And in some mystic hour
  I shall move to unheard rhythms
  Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
  And you will know the language
  Of my wordless poems
  And will come to me
  For that is why I dance.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Moving, Heaven, Orchestra

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• The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Real, Space, Body

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• You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Denial, Hinduism, Brahma

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• Dancing up the full moon
  Round some fair new altar
  Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

  Sappho

  Moon, Dancing, Grass

  Sappho “One Hundred Poems”, Lulu.com

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• Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

  Vempati Chinna Satyam

  Art, Wall, Division

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• Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

  Ted Shawn

  Art, Men, Emotional

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• I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants
  and a bare torso could speak profound things.

  Ted Shawn

  Men, Profound, Pants

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