Quotes on Dance

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just danced to the music.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband;_x000D_ _x000D_ I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,_x000D_ _x000D_ And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Come and trip it as ye go_x000D_ _x000D_ On the light fantastic toe.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.