Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do? Associate: Modern dancing. Goldwyn: I don’t want her then, modern dancing is so old fashioned.
Dancing - Dance Quotes
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for – liberation.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening – it isn’t – it has a great gaity at times and a great wonder.
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.
I would imagine if you understood Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance’s pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down with […]
I danced on the morning when the world was begun; I danced on the moon and the stars and the sun; I came down from Heaven and I danced on the earth; At Bethlehem I had my birth. Dance, then, wherever you may be, For I am the Lord of the Dance said he. And […]
