Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.
Practice means cutting down chance and risk.
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days. . . No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
We live only to dance. If living were not an essential prerequisite, we would abstain.
Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia. . . . All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.