Dance Quotes

Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

See the music, hear the dance.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

I repeat the wake-up, the workout, the quick shower, the breakfast of three hard-boiled egg whites and a cup of coffee, the hour to make my morning calls and deal with correspondence, the two hours of stretching and working out ideas by myself in the studio ... That's my day, every day. A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.