Quotes on Dance

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny and cloudless day. True celebration arises from a joy that is first experienced deep within, and spills over into an overflow of song and dance and laughter, and yes, even tears of gratitude.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

The body says what words cannot.

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

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.