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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Better Dancing makes Better Lovers

Bleeding feet will bond us.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Celebration never need depend on outside circumstances. We need not wait for a special holiday or a formal occasion, nor a sunny and cloudless day. True celebration arises from a joy that is first experienced deep within, and spills over into an overflow of song and dance and laughter, and yes, even tears of gratitude.

Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' − the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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.

Come up and see me sometime.

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 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.

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.

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.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

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 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.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Dancing brings an endlessness in which nothing matters but to go on dancing - in a room, till the walls disappear - in the open, till the sky, moving as you dance, seems to cleave and let you through.

Dancing is a sweat job.