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Dance Quotes by Ted Shawn
- I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the…
- I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
- I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
- Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
- Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in…
- Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the…
- I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
More Dance Quotes
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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