Alla Osipenko quotes

  • It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
    -- Alla Osipenko

    #Dance #Art #Moving

  • When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  • There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  • 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.

  • A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

  • The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  • Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  • To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

  • The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.

  • Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

  • I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.