Quotes About Dance

O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

Dusk came over the hill to me, Holding a red moon, And I danced with her, Feeling and following her starry steps, Till she turned and gave the moon To the swarthy night-- And slipped away without explaining.

Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness.

Caminhei para a porta, tão vitorioso que meu passo era uma folha vadia, dançando na brisa da tardezinha.

Hey, Calloway." Reluctantly I turned back. "What?" "Save me a dance, will you?" I smiled sweetly. "Only if you wear one of those cute little plaid cummerbunds.

YOUR DIVINE INVITATION You're invited to meet the Divine. Nobody can resist an invitation like that! Now, your choices narrow to two: You can come to the Divine ready to dance. Or Be carried on a stretcher to the Divine Emergency Room.

Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life.

Within the holy circle of the stage, geometrical principles are used to organize physical energy so that the beauty of the human form reveals a web of drama and truth---that is the essence of dance as I have come to know it.

Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

Why wouldn't I dance?" Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch? As for what he enjoyed having for dinner - that couldn't be discussed in polite company. "Because you think it's dumb?" The words emerged as a question rather than the statement I'd meant them to be. "Something that allows a guy to put his hands all over a girl isn't dumb. It's genius

Tu sei Anarchia. Dubito che ti preoccupi dei sentimenti altrui.» «Non sai niente di me» ribatté seccamente. «So che balli come se stessi facendo l'amore e so anche che hai il sapore della rovina di un uomo.»

There are no mothers-in-law in ballet.

My muse must come to me on union time.

You see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

There should not need to be a synopsis in the program. The movements and the music should express everything the audience needs to know.

Dance has to look like the music. If you see music simply as an accompaniment, then you don't hear it. I occupy myself with how not to interfere with the music.

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

I wonder if you'd like to do a little ballet with me. A polka, perhaps. For some elephants.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

There is evidently a set song and sentiment for every dance, for the songs are perfectly measured, and sung in exact time with the beat of the drum; and always with an uniform and invariable set of sounds and expressions, which clearly indicate certain sentiments, which are expressed by the voice, though sometimes not given in any known language whatever.