Dance Quote by Merce Cunningham Download Open image “Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.” — Merce Cunningham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dance Dancing Exercise Fitness Form Religion Spiritual
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains. — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit — Robert Battle Copy Share Image
For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts. — Normani Kordei Copy Share Image
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. — Shirley MacLaine 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
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living,… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.” — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me. — Merce Cunningham 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
You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image