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Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

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.

Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Dance for yourself. If someone else understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

Dance is movement, and movement is life.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.

Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.

Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'.

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.

Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.