Dance Quote by Jennifer Homans

For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

“It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell students something…

— Tucker Elliot

“There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?”

— Sir Ken Robinson

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from.…

— Pina Bausch

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

“There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how…

— Alvin Ailey

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an…

— Reza Abdoh

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

— Ninette de Valois

Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is…

— Mineko Iwasaki