Quotes and Sayings About Dance
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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
-- A. E. Housman -
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
-- Aaliyah -
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
-- Adam GarciaSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
-- Adam Lambert -
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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.
-- Adam Lambert -
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
-- Agnes de Mille -
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
-- Agnes de MilleSource : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
-- Agnes de MilleSource : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
-- Agnes de Mille -
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
-- Agnes de MilleSource : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
-- Agnes de Mille -
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
-- Agnes de Mille -
David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
-- Agrippina Vaganova -
Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
-- Al Sharpton -
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Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.
-- Alarmel Valli -
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
-- Albert Einstein -
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
-- Alex KapranosSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.