Quotes on Dance

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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 marching and makes us more alive than the others.

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.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking_x000D_ _x000D_ Spins the heavy world around.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.