Dance Quote by Agnes de Mille Download Open image “Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.” — Agnes de Mille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dance Modern Sinister Time
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have. — Ruthie Henshall Copy Share Image
“Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our… — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Maybe the whole point of the dancers is just to bring a little wonder into our lives.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place.… — Margaret H'Doubler Copy Share Image
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… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
