Hey everyone, been awhile so i thought id share something witchu all. Dance quotes that i carry around with me everywhere on my mobile. Hope these quotes inspire more to dance, motivate those who already are, and get everyone on this party bus of dance.
"Dancers are among the most passionate and dedicated of artists and rarely take their work for granted."
"You can't make a pointe if you don't understand the details."
"Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?" ~anonymous
"I don't have an attitude, I'm just REALLY good!" ~Dance Caravan
"If you say you can you can, but if you say you can't your right!" ~anonymous
"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat" ~anonymous
"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."
"Dancers are an admirable bunch of people. The way they work. The stress is extraordinary. It's a difficult career. I think it's hellish; the fact that they are over the hill as they're emotionally maturing. That calls for a terrific strength of character." ~Lady D. MacMillan
Japanese proverb: Dance Quotes
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. ~Terence
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown
Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~Author Unknown
Dance, an Art Form
The Body, an Instrument
Learn To Play The Instrument
So You Can Master The Art Form.
--Attributed to Debbie Dee.
Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. *Igor Youskevitch*
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil.
Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners. *unknown*
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
--Samuel Beckett
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
--Mihkail Baryshnikov
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
--e. e. cummings
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
--Martha Graham
