Aging Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov Download Open image “Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Air Certain Dance Dancer Dancers Lack Maturity Young Youth
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional. — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that a woman is healthy if she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
