"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~Dave Barry Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Terri Guillemets Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~Martha Graham Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. ~George Bernard Shaw Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955 Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. ~George Balanchine There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~Faith Whittlesey Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~Author Unknown Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. ~W.H. Auden In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. ~Martha Graham It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ~Shanna LaFleur I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. ~Terri Guillemets I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ~Martha Graham, c.1953 Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~Susan Polis Shutz Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine? ~Terri Guillemets Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ~Author Unknown Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~Martha Graham Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. ~John Northbrooke Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. ~Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay," performed by Rihanna Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. ~Martha Graham Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~Martha Graham The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~Mata Hari We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. ~Alexander Pope, Moral Essays Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."? ~Dave Sokolowski Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~Ruth St. Denis Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying

• published: 23 Oct 2013
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