Dance Quotes - Page 36

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Nobody is born a dancer.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

Seek wealth, it's good.