Quotes by Dance Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul. Alexander Pushkin dancing dance soul All night have the roses heard Alfred Lord Tennyson dance moon night Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? Alice Walker dance flower life Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art. Alicia Alonso dance exercise art A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you. Alicia Alonso learning dance art This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human. Alicia Alonso dance beautiful art Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life. Alicia Markova dance fall moving It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art. Alla Osipenko dance art moving Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity. Alonzo King dance wisdom life A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth. Alphonsus Liguori mad dance long Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. Alvin Ailey music dance teaching Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. Alvin Ailey dance inspirational believe The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. Alvin Ailey dance creative time My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be. Alvin Ailey dance mirrors beautiful Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. Alvin Ailey choreography pleasure dance I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. Alvin Ailey girl dance long No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough. Alvin Ailey dance matter writing I always want to have more dancers in my company. Alvin Ailey dancer dance want Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself. Alwin Nikolais dance basketball mean A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening. Alwin Nikolais innocent cat dance «1234567891011»