Ballet Quote by Arlene Croce Download Open image “It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.” — Arlene Croce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Body Dance Music Possession Technique
If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music. — Don G. Campbell Copy Share Image
Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being.… — Emile Jaques-Dalcroze Copy Share Image
Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind. — Tomas Luis de Victoria Copy Share Image
Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment. — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination. — Plato Copy Share Image
Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread… — India Arie Copy Share Image
When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
