I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
George BalanchineRead
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
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.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
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.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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