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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.

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

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

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.

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.

Come up and see me sometime.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

Dance is the mathematics of the Soul

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

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

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.