Dance Quotes - Page 6

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

My motto - sans limites.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.

Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Classical ballet will never die.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.