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Quotes About Dancers

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.
~ Mark Helprin
Ballet dancers, out of their stylized routines, are fish out of water. On a ballroom floor they're as awkward as other clods, muscle-bound, rhythmless.
~ bankhead tallulah iii
Dancers are not like movie actresses. People look at our bodies, not our faces. They only recognise me when I sign my name on something and they say, 'Ah yes, Sylvie.'
~ Sylvie Guillem
I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.
~ Deborah Bull
In Hindi cinema, the cabaret dancers were eased out when the heroines imbibed their mannerisms. This could happen in Malayalam cinema too.
~ Balachandra Menon
There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to live in. They have to share to be able to survive. In a place like the Royal Ballet, that shouldn't happen.
~ Sergei Polunin
You could tell they were dancers by the way they moved from sitting to standing like they were water.
~ Sarah Monette
And now, at dusk, outside my window, the trees shake their heads like disco dancers in the strobe lights of nightlife long ago.
~ Martin Amis
To one visitor Alexandrian life was "just one continuous revel, not a sweet or gentle revel either, but savage and harsh, a revel of dancers, whistlers, and murderers all combined.
~ Stacy Schiff
If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.
~ Jacques d'Amboise
The 'All My Children' studio was near Lincoln Center, and I used to see all the ballerinas and the dancers, and I thought, I don't want to bulk up; I want to have long, lean, toned muscles. And I found out that through Pilates, you can achieve those strong, lean dancer muscles.
~ Susan Lucci
Say what you will about Mormons, but they are very fine dancers.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The dancers were butterflies. From a hundred paces Salomé could see the dirt under these girls' fingernails, but not their wings.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The general impression about fat people is that they are romantic, funny and good dancers.
~ Satish Kaushik
I'm really good at improvising on stage, so if I'd forget a step, I'll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like... what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!
~ Sanya Malhotra
I've been to strip clubs where the dancers have these whole routines that they create just for the wow factor and to say, 'Look how strong and physically fit I am.' Most women couldn't do it, and it's not necessarily sexual. It's just a performance.
~ Megalyn Echikunwoke
It was ten A.M., but the place still had a few pathetic customers and even more pathetic dancers. One staff member set up the always-popular, all-you-can-eat ("food only"—ha-ha) buffet, mixing congealed food trays from Lord knows how many days ago. It would be trite to note that the buffet was a salmonella outbreak waiting to happen, but sometimes trite is the only sock in the drawer. Rudy
~ Harlan Coben
Rudy sat behind his desk. He could have worked as an extra on The Sopranos, except the casting director would deem him too much on type. He was a big man, sporting a gold chain thick enough to pull up a Carnival Cruise anchor and a pinkie ring that most of his dancers could wear around their wrists.
~ Harlan Coben
There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her, to events. She was really normal - just like everybody else!
~ Heather Morris
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
~ Kacy Hill
Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.
~ Heather Morris
Ir divu veidu cilv?ki. Ir tie, kas dz?vo, sp?l? un mirst. Un tie, kas nekad nedara neko citu, k? vien turas l?dzsvar? uz dz?ves smailes. Ir aktieri. Un ir virves dejot?ji.
~ Maxence Fermine
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
~ Henry Mayhew
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves.
~ Ronnie Spector