1,434 Quotes About Dance

  • Author Nan Aron
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    He is doing a delicate dance trying to please everyone. At the end of the day people are going to walk out of this hearing room being uncomfortable.

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  • Author Rudolf Arnheim
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    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.

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  • Author Saint Augustine
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    All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

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  • Author Ambrose Bierce
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    Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

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  • Author Arna Bontemps
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    Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

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