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.
Interpretation
Dancing allows individuals to transcend their everyday selves and experience a sense of beauty and empowerment.
This quote emphasizes that through the act of dancing, one can elevate their spirit and connect with a greater sense of self. It suggests that dance is not only an expression of art but also a powerful means of empowerment and an opportunity to embrace one's own glory and potential in life.
In practice
Using this quote during a dance workshop to inspire participants.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
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