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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder.

See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.

Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

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

Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine. The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can't even begin to understand. Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.