Quotes for dancing ...
- What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. -T.S. Elliot
- Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The curve is more dangerous than the sword. - Mae West.
- The dance is over, the applause subsided but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever - W. M. Tory.
- Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live. -
From *Serpent of the Nile*, Wendy Buonaventura. Saqi Books, London, 1989. p196. (per jlewis .sig file)
- On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet. -Lord Byron, *Childe Harold's Pilgrimage*, Canto III, Stanza 22
- The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.... Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no more translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. -Havelock Ellis, *The Dance of Life*, Chap. 2
- Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? - Friedrich Nietzsche, *The Twilight of the Idols*, Things the Germans Lack, 7
- When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
---William Shakespeare, *The Winter's Tale*, Sc. 3, line 140
- Don't be afraid to be amazing. - Andy Offutt Irwin.
- May our dance always be a bridge to understanding. May our dance always be a celebration of diversity. May our dance always be an instrument for peace. - Laurel Victoria Gray Sept. 2001
- You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls . - Merce Cunningham.
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham
- God respects you when you work, but he loves you when you dance. - Sufi Saying
- Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can. - Martha Graham
- There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum
- Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them. - Author Unknown
- Beside the fire, as the wood burns a laughing dancer in the veils of light whose dance transforms the darkness to gold. - Abu Abd Allah Ben ali- l - khisal - Rumi Poem.
- God match me with a good dancer. - William Shakespeare
- Nice men marry dancers. Real men become Dancers! - Author Unknown
- Behind each victory is a long train of suffering! - Anonymous
- You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat. - Anonymous
- Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself. - Bob Fosse
- Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching. - Aurora Greenway
- The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger. - Bob Fosse
- You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head. - Yoko Ono
- Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness. - Anna Pavlova
- In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams
- 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. - Alvin Ailey (1931-1989)
- If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no need to dance it. - Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
- 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. - Garth Fagan (1940- )
- 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. - Martha Graham (1894-1991)
- I want people to look like people when they're dancing. - Mark Morris (1956- )
- Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. - John Barrington Wain (1925- )
- Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. - Author Unknown
- Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. - Ginger Rogers
- I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine
- 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. - Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle
- "Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." - Samuel Beckett
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. - Dave Barry
- 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.
- Attributed to Dick Crum, a folk dance teacher.
- Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. - Fred Astaire.
- Recovery is a part of dancing ... then, do not worry about missing a dance step …just find your way back to it, graciously! – Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- I try to find in all my students the natural hidden skills they all have for dancing. My real job is just to hold the mirror to show it to them! – Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- When I dance I treat each partner like a different musical instrument in order to get their unique sound and melody – Y.R.’ Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- My grandmother taught me to dance. I did not think then she was too old to dance or I was too young to learn ... we just dance! – Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- When I dance a rumba I do it in such a way that I feel my heart beat and my lungs breath from inside my partner’s body. - Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- Some of my dance students set their dancing goals with modesty; however, I have set my goals for them in a most ambitious way … I want them to see themselves in a way they could not see themselves before they start learning to dance. – Y.R. ‘Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- It is the same melody for all, but your feet like brushes soak in colors give me picture of your mearningful story while you move along the floor. – Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- A person who deserves to be called a dance teacher has put the time and effort that a law student does to become a lawyer. Y.R. ‘Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- Dance students accept the pressure during their dance lessons and this is not wrong because, along the way, they will enrich their ability of awareness to a higher level. - Y.R. ‘Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- To explain how I feel when I dance is like making the attempt to describe the taste of a basket full of fruits. You have to try them! – Y.R. ‘Felliew’ Garibaldi
- My grandmother was sick and confined to her bed. In her bedroom there was a radio filling the room with old melodies. I remember the time I came to visit her. We have a nice talk, then she was tapping her fingers to a nice music and I decieded to enjoy her on the tapping, which escalated to a fingers dancing . Thus, we dance foxtrot, waltz, tango, you name it ... we smile and smile ... it was funny ... she died that week ... but we will keep dancing forever! – Y.R.’Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- Street dancers learn by observing and imitating others; educated dancers are taught by professionals; and social dancer is anyone who goes out to have a good time. Y.R. ‘Felliew’ Garibaldi.
- 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. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. - Norman Vincent Peale
- It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
- Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
- Martha Graham
- To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.- Hopi Indian Saying
- Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.- Maya Angelou
- Don't dream it, BE it! - Tim Curry (in the Rocky Horror Picture Show)
- Remember that dance has a dimension beyond the physical. The body-as imperfect as it always is-is only part of the picture. Your energy, the quality of your movement, your feeling about the world, your dance spirit-that is what we see under the lights. - Dance Magazine 3/05
- Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
- Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great. - Mark Twain
- Where there is no heart there is no art. - Anna Pavlova
- Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul. - Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham
- The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
- Edgar Degas
- If God has given you a talent, it is a sin to waste it. - Sister Francis Therese, St. Benedict Joseph Labre Catholic School, Queens, New York
- In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. - Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance. - African Proverb
- We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
- Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it. - Eminem
- Your body is the voice that sings what there are no words for, the instrument that plays the music of your soul. - Katisha
- Listen to the silence as it echoes around you. Ancient spirits dance to it. - Amber Coverdale Sumrall
- A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it. - Isadora Duncan
- When you fall, try it again... everyone falls the first time! - Dave Dodson
- Dance every performance as if it were your last. - Erik Bruhn
- Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.- Mother Teresa
- He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor. - Hindu proverb
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
- Mihkail Baryshnikov
- You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. Martha Graham
- To touch, to move, to inspire. This is the true gift of dance. Aubrey Lynch
- I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten. - Ruth St. Denis
- I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance. Fred Astaire
- The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. - Vincent Lombardi
- Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. - George Carlin
- Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
- Oprah Winfrey
- Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. - Voltaire
- Dance is like wine it matures with every performance. - Alarmel Valli
- Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
- Sylvie Guillem
- When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. - Wayne Dyer
- So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn’t have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it. - Mahmoud Reda
- 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. - Curt Sachs
- Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
- Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul. - Eugene Louis (Luigi) Faccuito
- After I perform, I hope the audience is excited, inspired, and taken away from their everyday grind or work. Perhaps even inspired enough to get up and dance themselves. - Lenore Pavlakos
- Tango is serious and takes discipline. It must be studied hard to be done well. It is elegant, formal, passionate and intimate. It is about power and vulnerability. It is both dance and metaphor. And to its captives becomes a magnificent obsession – Janny Scott.
- Dance tango and you are literally plastered up against somebody's body - Janny Scott.
- When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow – Jeff Allen.
- The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own – Jeff Allen.
- Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level. – Donnie Burns.
- Practice means cutting down chance and risk. – Donnie Burns
- Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level. Donnie Burns.
- The best relationship student –teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for. Donnie Burns
- Who expects trouble gets trouble. – Donnie Burns
- A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor. – Donnie Burns
- If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail. – Donnie Burns.
- Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. - Martha Graham
- Dancing appears glamorous, easy, and 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. -Martha Graham
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
- Everyday there must be something I can't do, otherwise it's boring. Monet Robier
- 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. - Rudolf Arnheim
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
- The journey between who you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. - Barbara De Angelis
