Ballet Quote by Fred Astaire Download Open image “If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.” — Fred Astaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance Dancing Ifs Inspirational Love Movement Superfluous
I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Those dances that require or permit the close embrace and suggestive movements . . . ought to be utterly prohibited.” — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing. — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“When a clumsy cloud from here, meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away, and he scuds right… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
Oh, there's no such thing as my favorite performance. I can't sit here today and look back, and say, Top Hat was better than… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
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… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
