Dancer Quotes - Page 38

• I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

  Julie Taymor

  Writing, Design, Theatre

  "Theatre Director Probes Humanism". Christopher Reardon, The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1992.

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• Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Art, Cake, Discipline

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• A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Children, Dancing

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• In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Character, Ties

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• In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Mistake, Dancing

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Religious, White

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.

  Carlo Blasis

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  Carlo Blasis (1830). “The code of Terpsichore. The art of dancing, tr. by R. Barton”, p.40

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

  Confucius

  Dance, Character, Dancing

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• I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Rocks, Identity

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds of dancers, smilers, swayers, swirlers, smokers, beer-drinking boppers, tripsters, spinners. I looked back at the crowd...and saw the show for a moment as a jewel...like a gem in a bracelet: an ornament on the body of the country, glittering in the coming darkness.

  Jason Burke

  Country, Drinking, Beer

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• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  Nadia Gamel

  Dream, Art, Hollywood

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• Dancers are both athletes and artists.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Art, Athlete, Dancing

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• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

  Agnes de Mille

  Tombstone, Dancing, Want

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• Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wall, Wind, Dancing

  "'We still have the same disease'". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

  Frank Thiess

  Dancing, Movement, Demand

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• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

  Dodie Smith

  Beautiful, Simple, Sight

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• I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

  Clay Aiken

  Honesty, What Matters, Who I Am

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.

  Jay Park

  Men, People, Perfect

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• Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Art, Spring, Blessed

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• I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

  Daryl Morey

  Philosophy, Asking, Opinion

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• Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Couple, Moving, Two

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• For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.

  Jamake Highwater

  Prayer, Eagles, Costumes

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• Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

  Michael Jackson

  Mistake, Thinking, Feels

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Comedian

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• In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Tables, Globalization, Garments

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