Quotes About Dance Technique

#1. 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

#2. Wonder. As I wonder if somewhere out in this storm there is a clown selling balloons tonight.

Stephen King

#3. The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

La Meri

#4. We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics ...

La Meri

#5. I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Martha Graham

#6. It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

Alla Osipenko

#7. The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Antony Sher

#8. Gratitude promotes consciousness, enthusiasm, joy, empathy, and tranquillity, while protecting from anxiety, sadness, loneliness, regret, and envy, with which it is fundamentally incompatible.

Neel Burton

#9. Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for
liberation.

Martha Graham

#10. My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#11. Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Agnes De Mille

#12. The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

Carolyn Elliott

#13. So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never,
Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

Immortal Technique

#14. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

#15. When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

Jeff Allen

#16. Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

La Meri

#17. I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#19. Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Anna Pavlova

#20. Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

Jiri Kylian

#21. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley Maclaine

#22. That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

A-Trak

#23. Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Martha Graham

#24. Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

George Sava

#25. David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

Agrippina Vaganova

#26. Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

Jackie Evancho

#27. It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

Arlene Croce