Dance Quotes - Page 14

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Disco is just jitterbug.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.

I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

The floor is milk, churn it and make it butter.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.