Quotes About Dance Performance

#1. My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani ... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again ... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

Nita Ambani

#2. The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

Kyle Abraham

#3. People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.

Jose Parla

#4. A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

Yamini Krishnamurthy

#5. Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. So Elizabeth, dare we take the dance floor again in hopes of repeating that splendid performance given by Lydia?

Elizabeth Eulberg

#7. Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Erik Bruhn

#8. There was comfort in ignorance, in thinking the world a certain way and not knowing any different.

Christina Henry

#9. The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

Dave Barry

#10. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

DeObia Oparei

#11. Dance used to do that for me too: a place where there was nothing to do but be me and let everything else fall away. For a lot of the girls on the team, it was all about the performance, but for me, I think it was always about communication.

Emily Henry

#12. A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

Ramsay Burt

#13. The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Martha Graham

#14. When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Meg Howrey

#15. He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so exquisite and fluid it coaxed our souls out of our bodies to dance with him, weightless in the perfume of divinity.

Katie Waitman

#16. I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

Jiah Khan

#17. I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#18. However, such an understanding is problematic. Barcan Marcus, for example, suggested that "Individuals must be there before they enter into relations, even relations of self-identity".29

Steven French

#19. I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#20. Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Thomas Campion

#21. So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

Benjamin Harkarvy

#22. A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

Jenny O.

#23. [Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.

Michael Kimmelman

#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. Dance is like wine; it matures with every performance.

Alarmel Valli

#26. To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

Jamie Wyeth

#27. She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.

Zadie Smith

#28. I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

Jennifer Lopez

#29. Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

Bill Stout

#30. The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

Jacques Maritain

#31. There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

Eva Ibbotson

#32. If you live a righteous life, then you should be exalted above situations and circumstances in life

Sunday Adelaja

#33. There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

Peter Criss

#34. Saturday mornings in spring should always start with a jolt of dance by Paul Taylor performed by Taylor 2. The touring ensemble, an adjunct of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, offered a rare New York performance ... It was an impressive event, presented by a group of highly individualistic dancers.

Jennifer Dunning

#35. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

#36. When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

Wayne Dyer

#37. We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice - a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.

Greg McKeown

#38. I believe that we learn by practice ... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Martha Graham