Dance Quotes - Page 3

Dance is music made visible

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

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

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

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.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.