Dance Quotes - Page 33

• I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dream, Becoming The Best, Energy

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.

  Twyla Tharp

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

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• I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

  Twyla Tharp

  Motivational, Real, Two

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know about. Discoveries are in a place we don't already know about.

  Twyla Tharp

  Thinking, Discovery, Order

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

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• It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Difficult, Justify, Profession

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

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• This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, People, Ballet

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• Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close they can come.

  Twyla Tharp

  Kids, Thinking, Chance

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• If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

  Antony Tudor

  Ballet, Body, Stage

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• I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

  Mark Twain

  Party, Butterfly, Dancing

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• Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

  Galina Ulanova

  Artist, Achievement, Creative

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• What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

  Edward Villella

  Greek, Ballet, Mind

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• The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

  Mary Wigman

  Summer, Stars, Flower

  Mary Wigman (1966). “The language of dance”

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• Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Daughter, Sex, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Men, Two, People

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• In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

  Milan Kundera

  Partners

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• Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

  Joni Mitchell

  Baby, Want

  Song: All I Want

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• Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.

  Jan Murray

  Moving, Twists, Towels

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• Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

  Steve Paxton

  Moving, Thinking, Dancing

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• Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Night, Men, People

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• How do you know a partner is right for you? That has everything to do with knowing each other and practicing together until you work as one, until you begin to synchronise your movements and your thoughts and your rhythmical feel for the music with your partner.

  Patsy Yvonne Helen Swayze

  Knowing, Together, Movement

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• ... if you desire to marry you must realize that a mistress
  is won by the good temper and grace displayed while dancing...
  for dancing is practiced to reveal whether lovers
  are in good health and sound of limb,
  after which they are permitted to kiss their mistresses
  in order that they may touch and savor one another
  thus to ascertain if they are shapley
  or emit an unpleasant odor as of bad meat.
  Therefore, from this standpoint, quite apart from the
  many other advantages to be derived from dancing,
  it becomes an essential to a well-ordered society.

  Thoinot Arbeau

  Kissing, Order, Dancing

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• On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

  Mark Twain

  Dancing, Joy, Motto

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.790, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Book, Writing, Heart

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

  Henry Fielding

  War, Dancing, Parent

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.126

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• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Block, Yoga, Unique

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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