Quotes on Short Dance

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.

The body says what words cannot.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

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

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

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

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

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.

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

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.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.