I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means…

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance.…

— Antony Tudor

There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which…

— Merce Cunningham

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

— Martha Graham

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

— Martha Graham

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's…

— Pema Chodron

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what…

— Joseph Campbell

Face dance means you don't know what the hell the rest of your body was doing but your face is fierce. That's face dancing.

— Rosie Perez

“A career in dance, however, was by no means even contemplated at this time.”

— Walter Terry

Dance means everything to me; it is like fresh air that rejuvenates my life.

— Sudha Chandran

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which…

— Doris Lessing

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

— Peyton List

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the…

— Judith Jamison

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her,…

— Heather Morris

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

— Anne Sexton