Quotes About Dance

We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.

Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.

She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.

The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare,

Expressive arts therapy--the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing, and imaginative play--is a non-verbal way of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic.

Further and further afield he travelled. Taking ship, he sailed to a hot and passionate country where gypsy women dressed in scarlet, and their dark skin sweated as they danced tarantellas under a tambourine moon.

We all can dance," he said, "when we find music that we love.

We can all dance when we find music that we love.

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Old Father Time fox-trots across my golden locks!

Butterflies, bees our wingèd, happy friends Oh, to dance in the air and float on the breeze...

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

...music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.

I care not a job about the technology of the art of dancing... All that concerns me is how beautifully or how expressively a dancer can dance...

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

And now the Chapel's silver bell you hear, That summons you to all the Pride of Pray'r: Light quirks of Music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a Jig to Heav'n.