Dance Forms Quotes

#1. It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Anton Du Beke

#2. I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Caroline Shaw

#3. 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 not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

Deborah Bull

#4. All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes ... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.

Alexandra David-Neel

#5. Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual ... It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

Ted Andrews

#6. It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.

Ruth St. Denis

#7. Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

Mick Jagger

#8. When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

Gabriela Sabatini

#9. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

#10. To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life
not existing forms of dance.

Pina Bausch

#11. Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Principles and their consequences are always constant.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#14. Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Twyla Tharp

#15. The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

Eric Chaisson

#16. Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!

Leigh Hershkovich

#18. When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Deb Caletti

#19. She was totally going to get this little fucker back for this.

Beth Ashworth

#20. For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

#22. Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

Igor Youskevitch

#23. You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Jim Butcher

#24. I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

Antony Gormley

#25. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

James Gray

#26. My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

Keith Stanfield