Dance Quote by Lucinda Childs

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin…

— Lucinda Childs

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

— George Bernard Shaw

To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.

— Isabel Toledo

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Since a lot of dance movements begin and end with the legs, there is a lot of attention drawn to them. The more sculpted…

— Cheryl Burke

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…

— Suzanne Farrell

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with…

— Vera Wang

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself…

— Antony Tudor

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has…

— Plato

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the…

— John Guare

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

— Robert Caro