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Dance Quotes by Curt Sachs
- The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
- The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
- The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have…
- Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
- In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the…
- It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of…
- Every dance is and gives ecstasy.
- The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they…
- The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of…
- A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.
- If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all…
- In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus…
- The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.
- Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a…
- Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
- The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play,…
- The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of…
- Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.
- The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.
- A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
- Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is…
- In dance, even the weakest can do wonders.
- The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once…
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- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
- I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov