Dancers Quotes

265 Dancers quotes by 191 unique authors

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine. — Mason Cooley
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes de Mille
Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. — Ninette de Valois
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… — Suzanne Farrell
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
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
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − 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
We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork. — Harold Nicholas
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… — Unknown Author
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
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do.… — Unknown Author
Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly? — Jean-Christophe Maillot
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. — Jack Handey
If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric… — Jacques d'Amboise
I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of… — Emmanuel Jal
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes… — Simon Beaufoy
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in… — Christian Louboutin
When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not… — Catherine Mary Stewart
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. — Mithun Chakraborty
The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time! — Chloe Bridges
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best… — Twyla Tharp

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