Dance Quotes - Page 35

• Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

  Donnie Burns

  Mean, Cutting, Practice

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• Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

  Donnie Burns

  Sports, Art, Achievement

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• The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

  Donnie Burns

  Teacher, Knowing, Best Relationship

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• Who expects trouble gets trouble.

  Donnie Burns

  Trouble

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• A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

  Donnie Burns

  Dancing, Way, Left

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• If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

  Donnie Burns

  Gym Motivation, Failing, Great Bodybuilding

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Swimming, Cinema, Love Poetry

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• I don't want to feel a shoe; I want the shoe to become part of me.

  Leslie Browne

  Shoes, Want, Feels

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• It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

  Darcey Bussell

  Life, Selfish, Ballet

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• You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

  Darcey Bussell

  Dream, Cutting, Night

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• Ballet is only good when it is great.

  Arlene Croce

  Ballet, Ballet Dance, Ballet Dancer

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”, Random House Inc

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• If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

  Arlene Croce

  Years, Two, Dancing

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• It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

  Arlene Croce

  Ballet, Technique, Body

  Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.606, Macmillan

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• It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

  Siobhan Davies

  Play, Influence, Existence

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• The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

  Siobhan Davies

  Ideas, Ballet, Needs

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• Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.

  Jean-Christophe Maillot

  Giving, Should, Conclusion

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• We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

  La Meri

  Technique, Acrobatics, Movement

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• The only weapon I had was my dancing.
  With that I fought like a general without an army.
  If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
  it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

  Maya Plisetskaya

  Struggle, Army, Dancing

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• For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Spiritual, Art, Emotional

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• If we can think, feel, and move, we can dance.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Moving, Thinking, Feels

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• Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!

  Ibrahim Farah

  Body, Way, Spirit

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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

  Angela Carter

  Joy

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• Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

  Anita Brookner

  Thinking, Dancing, Singing

  Anita Brookner (2012). “Dolly”, p.173, Vintage

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• I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Inspirational, Dream, Morning

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• You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Kings, Grim Reaper

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