Dance Quotes - Page 22

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.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

Come up and see me sometime.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.