Quotes About Dance

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.

There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.

survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences.

So, says Lev, as casually as he can, you wanna dance? Do you believe in the end of the world? she responds. Lev shrugs. I don't know. Why? Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.

And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation.

Life is a dance that concludes on its own schedule. And so there we sit, keeping each other company as we wait for the last petal to fall.

One of the adults does his best impersonation of a DJ, and when encouragement doesn't work,he demands that everyone form a circle on the dance floor to do the hokey pokey. However, ten seconds into the dance, he suddenly realises how ill advised it is for ex-tithes to be putting various body parts in and out.

It almost seemed like a fuck, maybe better." "It didn't mean anything, it was just dancing.

It was the Canadian belly dancer," I told Sara. "How's she doing?" "She's just full of Christmas cheer.

What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.)

The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

I'm going to miss Saroj Ji and I will cherish all the fond memories I have of her.

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.