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Dance Quotes by Doris Humphrey
- The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful…
- Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...
- The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there…
- Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind…
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- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- Disco is just jitterbug. — Fred Astaire
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- 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