Art Quote by Twyla Tharp

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

— John Dryden

Shoes have a meaning.

— Claire Denis

“heeled sandals, and painted toenails.  It was”

— Lindsey Brookes

“To dance is to create poetry with your feet.”

— Avijeet Das

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for…

— Natalie Portman

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

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

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

— Jack Waters

“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us…

— Jennifer Homans

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller…

— Aaron Neville

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more…

— Twyla Tharp

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval.…

— Natalie Portman