Dance Performance Quotes

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  • Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  • The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

    Dance   Play   Space  
  • The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

    Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”
  • Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

    John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics
  • Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

    Dance   Answers   Kind  
    'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
  • We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

    Life   Dance   Education  
    Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday
  • Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

    Dance   Dancing   Ballet  
    Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.22
  • Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

    Dance   Volleyball   Mean  
    Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday
  • Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

    Dance   Light   Dancing  
  • 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.

    Dance   Pain   Light  
  • There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

    "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.
  • Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

    Girl   Dance   Men  
    Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)
  • 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.'

  • When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

    Dance   People   Dancing  
  • Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

    Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown
  • Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

    "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.
  • 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.

    Dance   Ballet   Magic  
  • Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

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

    Dance   Wine   Dancing  
  • 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 (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press
  • ...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

    Dance   Skills   Dancing  
  • You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

    Dance   Heart   Eye  
  • Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

    Dance   Heart   Eye  
  • Nothing is more revealing than movement.

  • Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

    Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”
  • All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

    Dance   Book   Skills  
  • The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.

    Dance   Art   Fall  
    Rudolf Arnheim (1966). “Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays”, p.261, Univ of California Press
  • Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

    Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday
  • 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.

    Dance   People   Ballet  
  • Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

    The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)
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