Inspirational Dancing Quotes
"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
- Shanna LaFleur
"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
- Unknown
"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
- Unknown
"You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."
- Unknown
"The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too..."
- Merce Cunningham
"Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
- Martha Graham
"So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance."
- Benjamin Harkarvy
"I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime."
- Jean Georges Noverre
"All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project."
- Luis Fuente
"Dancing should look easy; like an optical illusion. It should seem effortless. When you do a difficult variation, the audience is aware that it is demanding and that you have the power and strength to do it. But in the end, when you take your bow, you should look as if you were saying, 'Oh, it was nothing. I could do it again.'"
- Bruce Marks