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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.
A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
Every tree and plant in the medouw seemed to be dancing, those with average eyes would see as fixed and still.
It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.'
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.
Dance gives me a lot of confidence and helps me overcome all my insecurities in personal and professional life.
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months.
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.
I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.
I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor.
It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
I did a lot of ramp modelling in South Africa and Hong Kong, when models were free to dance and walk on the ramp.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.
Everytime I put a dance video out on social media, my fans love it, and the reaction I get online is mind blowing.
We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
Y'know, smile, dance, get crazy... we sure do while we're making it, because music is our leeezshure; it's my fun.
If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
I love dancing; my kids love to dance. I think it's just another way for children to learn they can be themselves.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.