Quotes on Dance Performance

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.