Dancer Quotes

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

They should be working, and there isn't enough work.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.