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Dance Quotes by Suzanne Farrell
- When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater,…
- I learned to love dance for its own sake.
- 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 I…
- After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.
- Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students):…
- As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
- Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes…
- Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from…
- I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
- I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
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- 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