“I will dare to do just what I do. Be just what I am. And dance whenever I want to” — Beverly Williams Copy Share Image
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live. — Wendy Buonaventura Copy Share Image
Once when I danced on television there was no script for me. They told me, 'you know, just dance.' Well, you don't… — Vera-Ellen Copy Share Image
When life gives you a Bad Romance, show everyone your Poker Face, buy a new Telephone, call Alejandro, and you guys Just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I know hands down I would lose for sure, but I would love to just dance with Beyoncé. Really, that's what my… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a… — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There… — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things… — Luis de la Fuente Copy Share Image
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image