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I thought I would share this article on dance quotations.
Dance Quotations
Quotations and Sayings Related to
Dance
The
following inspirational and motivational dance quotations were written by
dancers and choreographers of many dance genres.
Meant
to inspire and to invoke philosophical thoughts, these dance sayings will bring
out the dancer in all of us.
I have no desire to prove anything
by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself.
I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. - Fred Astaire.
Dance is music made visible. - George Balanchine.
Think of the magic of that foot,
comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and
the dance... is a celebration of that miracle. - Martha Graham.
I want one word on my
tombstone-dancer. - Agnes de Mille.
If I could have said it, I shouldn't
have had to dance it. - Anna Pavlova.
The energy doesn’t end at the hands.
I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.-
Bob
Fosse.
How can we know the dancer from the
dance?- William
Butler Yeats.
Dancing is like bank robbery. It
takes split-second timing.- Twyla Tharp.
To dance is to be out of yourself.
Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and
it is yours for the taking.- Agnes De Mille.
I do not try to dance better than
anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.- Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Great artists are people who find
ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity
in art and life alike.- Margot Fonteyn.
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