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Dance Quotes by Ruth St. Denis
- I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might…
- Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest…
- Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
- It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
- We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
- But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
- I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
- I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people...…
- It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.
- I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
- When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity.…
- It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of…
- The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument…
- You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
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- 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