Dance Quotes - Page 11

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

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.

I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

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.

This dance isn't just about shaking your waist and your ass.

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.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.