Occupation: Choreographer Birth: May 11, 1894 Death: April 1, 1991
Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body..
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business..
Nothing is more revealing than movement..
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us ….
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion..
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that m….
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation..
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain..
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings..
I get up, I fall down, all the while I am dancing..
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it..
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated ….
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion..
The body says what words cannot..
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 unuse….
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability..
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing..
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this ex….
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principle….
Some of you are doomed to be artists..
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times..