Top 100 Dance Is Quotes
#1. Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic
Rumi
#2. To dance is not to jump to your feet and rise painlessly in the air like dust. To rise above both worlds is to dance in the blood of your pain and give up your life.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#3. 'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Mithun Chakraborty
#4. Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.
Tad Williams
#5. Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.
Marty Rubin
#6. It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.
Tinashe
#7. You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.
Judith Jamison
#8. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
Jacques D'Amboise
#9. The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
Curt Sachs
#10. Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
Baker Brownell
#11. Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
Ibrahim Farah
#12. The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.
Rob Sheffield
#13. In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#14. Dance is an image. As painting is a song. Simulacra simulate. A rite repeats a metaphora (a voyage). Moving trucks in modern-day Greece still have the word METAPHORA on their sides. A myth is the danced image of the rite itself, which is expected to attract the world.
Pascal Quignard
#15. The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
Aesop Rock
#16. The way she talks about dance is a little like how I feel when I look at her. Overwhelmed and fulfilled and falling apart all at the same time.
Cora Carmack
#17. My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.
Anton Du Beke
#18. Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.
Teri Polo
#19. Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!
Constanze Mozart
#20. It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.
Gabrielle Roth
#21. Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual ... It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.
Ted Andrews
#22. Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move ... Where is your joy?
Mary Anthony
#24. If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.
Curt Sachs
#25. The dance is sweeter than the song.' "Let
Janet Kagan
#27. I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.
Jody Watley
#28. When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.
Twyla Tharp
#30. The key to a successful dance is to make it seem like you can't help yourself. You look into your partner's eyes, as if that gaze binds you while your body moves to the music.
Cynthia Hand
#31. Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
Shirley Maclaine
#32. The real rain dance is when the rain dances.
Marty Rubin
#33. To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
Isadora Duncan
#34. To dance is to reach for a word that doesn't exist,
To sing the heartsong of a thousand generations,
To feel the meaning of a moment in time.
Beth A. Jones
#35. Dance Is Magic, Dancers Are Magicians, Music Is The Magic Portion Mixed In The Heart 'The Magic Pot'...Now Go Do Some Magic Today And Live A Magical Life
Okwudili Iloka
#36. Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear."
Paul Marshall
#37. It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.
Curt Sachs
#38. Modern physics had shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For modern physicists ... Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter.
Fritjof Capra
#39. Dance is the product of the necessity for pure emotional expression.
La Meri
#40. I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.
Laurieann Gibson
#41. Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
Gwen Verdon
#43. So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier ...
Deborah Bull
#44. The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Twyla Tharp
#45. The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man's consciousness in action - the dance presents a stylized version of man's body in action.
Ayn Rand
#46. We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#47. The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
Havelock Ellis
#48. For me, dance is a nutrient, you know, it's something that I need, it's something like, you know, the air we breath, the food we eat. These are things that we need for survival. For me, dance is a nutrient. It's my nourishment.
Gregg Burge
#49. The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.
Bob Fosse
#50. Kleiber was the perfect dancer - so perfect that you could see the process. After all, dance is a process; it's a series of snapshots. Kleiber knew how to connect people to the flow, so he could stop managing people.
Itay Talgam
#51. I'm going to be straight with you... because this dance is killing me. Don't imagine for a second that I don't want you." - Ty, Chapter Five
Ann Aguirre
#53. I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.
Shakira
#55. What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
Twyla Tharp
#57. And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
Graeme Murphy
#58. Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
#59. The Hopi Indians have a saying, "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak." I know how much courage it takes to let people hear our hearts speak, but life is way too precious to spend it pretending like we're super-cool and totally in control when we could be laughing, singing, and dancing.
Brene Brown
#60. Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
Madhuri Dixit
#61. To dance is human, to polka is divine.
K.d. Lang
#62. I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man
the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
Martha Graham
#63. I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
Carmen Electra
#64. Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Neve Campbell
#66. She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine.
Francine Pascal
#67. Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham
#68. Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.
Goa Gil
#69. The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
#70. I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.
Chita Rivera
#71. When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal ... Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.
Carlos Gavito
#72. The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
August Bournonville
#73. I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.
Drew McWeeny
#74. 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
#75. Dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.
Twyla Tharp
#76. The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
Ninette De Valois
#77. Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.
Jerome Robbins
#78. Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?
Sophie Kinsella
#79. Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.
A.P.
#80. Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth.
Joan Acocella
#81. My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
Neil Patrick Harris
#83. Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth,
Gabrielle
#84. If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.
Fred Astaire
#85. The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.
Chita Rivera
#86. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
#87. I'm a Gatorade athlete because dance is being recognized as a sport now. It always should have been, but now it is. It's very exciting.
Stephen Boss
#88. Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
Stephen Boss
#89. A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.
Gary Shapiro
#90. Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?
Paul Valery
#91. It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.
Jennifer Grey
#92. Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.
Tatiana Maslany
#93. The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
Evan Esar
#94. Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.
Nita Ambani
#95. This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#96. Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.
James Corden
#97. No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.
Sylvie Guillem
#98. Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#99. Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.
Isadora Duncan
#100. Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
Neve Campbell
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