Dancer Quotes - Page 12

• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Self, Creative, Soul

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• What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

  Martha Graham

  Passion, Technique

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• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

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• The dancer's trembling heart must bring everything into harmony, from the tips of her shoes to the flutter of her eyelashes, from the ruffles of her dress to the incessant play of her fingers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Heart, Eyelashes, Play

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• The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

  Louis L'Amour

  Writing

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• I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

  Duane Michals

  Mean, Needs, Photographer

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• I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Years

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Practice, Shoes, Grace

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.15, SCB Distributors

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• Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

  George Balanchine

  Two, Stories, Enough

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• The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beach, Ocean, Past

  "The Art of the Dance" edited by Sheldon Cheney, (p. 54), 1928.

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• How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

  Martha Graham

  Knowing, Giving, Arrogance

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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• Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Discovery, Self, May

  Judith Lynne Hanna (1988). “Dance and stress: resistance, reduction, and euphoria”, Ams Pr Inc

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• There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.

  Fred Astaire

  People, Want, Hell

  "The New Pictures: 'Blue Skies'". TIME Magazine, (p. 103), October 14, 1946.

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• Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Mother, Theater

  Source: collider.com

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• As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

  Anne Fletcher

  Girl, Comedy, Physical Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

  Anne Fletcher

  President, United States, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear, when I was 12, that my body wasn't going to be right. That's always a heartbreaking moment because there's nothing you can do about that. Your body is just not right. You don't have enough turnout. You're not built properly.

  Greta Gerwig

  Great Love, Ballet, Heartbreaking

  Source: collider.com

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• I did do a little research. I went to a couple really fantastic strip clubs with really talented dancers, just in terms of their physical prowess. For the scene, there was a whole dance routine that I had to do, so I worked with a pole dance instructor who helped me choreograph a number for that scene. We broke down the principles of pole dancing, for three days, for an hour a day.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Couple, Numbers, Dancing

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Even today when I rehearse, I give it everything that I've got. If I'm in a performance and the lights go out, I glow in the dark. When you're working before an audience, you have to make them feel like they can touch you. That's the dancer within, reaching out.

  Mitzi Gaynor

  Dark, Light, Giving

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• So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look.

  Alonzo King

  Real, Thinking, Years

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Ego, Forget

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• All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

  Al Pacino

  Trying, Modest, Dues

  "10 Questions for Al Pacino". Interview with Rebecca Winters Keegan, content.time.com. June 14, 2007.

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• A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Taken, Should Have, Class

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• Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
  What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
  The lazy time if not with some delight?

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Lazy, Delight

  William Shakespeare, R. A. Foakes (2003). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

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