Dance Quotes1.Thousands of emotions well up inside me through out the day. They are released
when I dance. *Abraham
2.Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy--it
becomes possible. The effort involved in making a dancer's body is so long and
relentless, in many instances painful, the effort to maintain the technique so
grueling that unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and
the punishing, the pace could not be maintained.
3.There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn
to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.
4.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
5.The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to
the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in
your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that .
6.Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired
7.Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the
achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body
cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily
small deaths.
8. Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the
meaning to their movement can be another thing
9. All I ever needed was the music and the mirror
10. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge
11. Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music
12.If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream
about it,--desire it
13. Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
14. The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
15. Everyday there must be something I can't do, otherwise it's boring
16. Great dancers are not great because of thier technique, they are great because
of thier passion
17. It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer
18.
Dance, an Art Form
The Body, an Instrument
Learn To Play The Instrument
So You Can Master The Art Form.
19.The trained dancer must not only have grace and elegance, but also the leap of an
Olympic hurdler, the balance of a tight-rope walker and panther-like strength
and agility.
20. Many of the simplest exercises become harder in the centre...
21.Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert,
always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.
22. The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting
and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space
23. The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for
themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a
play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as
perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.
24. It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them
accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize
them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human
sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to
describe it by.
25.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
26. 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.
27. Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas
retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so
excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?
28. Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking
man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which
carries away all.
29. The dance exists exclusively in terms of the movement of the body, not only in
the obvious sense that the dancer moves, but also in the less apparent sense
that its response in the spectator is likewise a matter of body movement.
30. Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very
old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art
except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over
31. Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with
motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with
motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a
means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--
that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself
32. 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
33. What is modern about modern dance is its resistance to the past, its response
to the present, its constant redefining if the idea of dance.
34. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and
gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind
words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment
you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
35. I would like to make it clear from the start that these dances are primarily
meant to be a kind of food for the eye. If they evoke dramatic images and
riddles, the key to their solution lies not so much in the brain, but in the
senses and the eye of the spectator.
36. I’m very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle,
tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me...has been the
rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic
activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.
37. To dance is to challenge the body which is also the self. To generate an action
which has a force of its own and allow the movement to penetrate the inner
sensibilities, or to calculate the action and try to tune out--this is difficult,
perhaps impossible.
38. Dancing should look easy; like an optical illusion. It should seem effortless.
When you do a difficult variation, the audience is aware that it is demanding and
that you have the power and strength to do it. But in the end, when you take your
bow, you should look as if you were saying, ‘Oh, it was nothing. I could do it
again.’
39. One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of
training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a
certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.'
I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no
one's pupil but God's.
40. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your
life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and
envy.
41. 1. Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners.
42. He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.
43. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
Dance isn't just about fancy footwork. It requires grace, discipline, and major
muscles.
44. Socrates learned to dance when he was 70 because he felt that an essential part
of himself had been neglected.
45. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget
all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget
who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the
dance.
46. Technique--bodily control--must be mastered only because the body must not
stand in the way of the soul's
47. Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend
your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing
bigger than that: your dancing spirit.
48. Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
49. I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
50. Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
