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Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

People dance at any age.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Our young people are out on the streets looking for parties, a place to dance, looking for a scene. No institutions are providing them with alternatives, fun things to do that don't necessarily have alcohol at the center.

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Polka will never die.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

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

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?

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

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

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

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

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