Dancer Quotes

673 quotes by 475 authors

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… — Suzanne Farrell
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as… — Martha Graham
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle… — Martha Graham
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of… — Martha Graham
I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of… — Anna Halprin
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do. — Marcia Haydee
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing âˆ’ and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know… — Michael Jackson
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers… — Bill T. Jones
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and… — Lincoln Kirstein
Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired. — Jose Limon
The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service. — Lucian
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork. — Harold Nicholas
Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the… — Rajneesh
... a person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul âˆ’ it's not just learning steps, it's… — Patrick Swayze
I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By… — Twyla Tharp
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. — Twyla Tharp
Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes… — Lord Chesterfield
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go… — Susan Jaffe
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and… — Nelly Mazloum

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