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Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

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.

When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

When I give, I give myself.

When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with each other by the moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and your partner and the music. You feel the music, you feel your partner, she feels you and she feels the music. So there the three of you are together. You've got a triangle, you know. Which one do you love best?

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Whoever finds that they're not prepared to give their all should draw the inescapable conclusion from that and stop.

Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.

White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?