1,434 Quotes About Dance

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

I was in the Santa Rosa Musician's Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never played together show up and play dance music.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

There's an incredible variety there, and dance lovers are going to be in seventh heaven.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.