Dancers Quotes

• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life. At the same time, they have an incredibly rigorous training schedule.

  

  George Nolfi
  • Interesting
  • Something
  • Tension

• When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Friends
  • New York
  • Moved

• There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers who do it. They tend to be really arty and interesting people in real life.

  

  George Nolfi
  • Real
  • Something
  • Really

• My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

  

  Bobby Burgess
  • Enjoy
  • Teaching
  • My Kids

• We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Gay
  • Waist
  • Aviators

• We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Dancers
  • Celebrated
  • Jugglers

• With dancers, we are all the time dancing with somebody else. It happens often that you meet a new dancer or you have a new partner. But what is true is that sometimes, when you dance with some people, there is not the right feeling.

  

  Blanca Li
  • Partner
  • Dancers

• All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Night
  • Moon
  • VIolin

• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  

  Elizabeth Streb
  • Choice
  • Hearts
  • Outcome

• Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

  

  Richard Schiff
  • Couple
  • Musicals
  • Dancers

• How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then ever before from applause.

  

  Tertullian
  • Proud
  • Christians
  • Philosophers

• 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
  • Magic
  • Performance
  • Discover

• Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.

  

  Milla Jovovich
  • Girls
  • Models
  • Dancers

• I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you know? I wasn't thinking about that. I just think that's in my body now. Dancers don't think about their legs moving one way and their arms moving another. Over time, you incorporate that into your instrument.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Thinking
  • Singing
  • Arms

• One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

  

  Siobhan Davies
  • Discipline
  • Sense
  • Dancers

• I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

  

  Judith Jamison
  • Family
  • Sacrifice
  • Dancers

• Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders.

  

  Chris Elam
  • Listen
  • Vote
  • Patrons

• Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Young
  • Studio
  • Eccentric

• Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

  

  Mithun Chakraborty
  • Actors
  • Trained
  • Dancers

• Both Pasquale and Rino turned out to be surprisingly good dancers, and we learned from them the tango, the waltz, the polka, and the mazurka.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Learned
  • Dancers
  • Mazurkas

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