Quotes on Pointe Dancers

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

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.

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

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.