Dance Quotes
Here are some of our favorite Dance Quotes that we've collected to Inspire You at Dance-On: Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don’t care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be. Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no need to dance it. To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art—this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life. Fred Astaire (1899-1987) I just put my feet in the air and move them around. George Balanchine (1904-1983) Ballet is like a rose; it’s beautiful and you admire it, but you don’t ask what it means. I have no time to relax. I have only a lifetime, a lifetime to force the most exquisite use of the body. Carroll Lewis (1832-98) Will you, won’t you, will you won’t you join the dance? The Lobster Quadrille Alice in Wonderland. Jean Christope ( ) Always the question for the dancers is: Can we fly? Agnes De Mille (1905-1993) The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music Edwin Denby (1903-1983) You don’t have to know about ballet to enjoy it; all you have to do is look at it. Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Garth Fagan (1940- ) Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso’s work. I think the notion of labels – “black dancer, black choreographer’ –is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit. More Dance Quotes........... Martha Graham (1894-1991) I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover – the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth. Alonzo King ( ) When you witness someone who is single-minded, it is very powerful. The dancer has to be single-focused in action. Billie Jean King (1942- ) Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing. Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957) Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. Mark Morris (1956- ) I want people to look like people when they’re dancing. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) O Chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole?O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,How can we know the dancer from the dance? John Barrington Wain (1925- ) Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. Mary Wigman (1886- 1973) I feel that the dance is a language which is inherent, but slumbering in every one of us. It is possible for every human to experience the dance as an expression in his own body, and in his own way. I have tried to combine emotion with intellect. Some call my art tragic, far removed from sweetness and prettiness. I have tried only to interpret modern man and his fate. Merce Cunningham (1919- ) Dancing for me is movement in time and space. Twyla Tharp (1941- ) Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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