To shake your rump is to
be environmentally aware.
?David Byrne
If you can walk you can dance.
If you can talk you can sing.
?Zimbabwean Proverb
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned
amid a milieu of wracked bodies,
fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and
sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely,
and dancers know it.
?Shana Alexander
If you dance, you dance because you
have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
?Katherine Dunham
I am bit sending messages with my feet.
All I ever wanted was not to come up empty.
I did it for the dough and the old applause.
?Fred Astaire
We look at the dance to impart the sensation
of living in an affirmation of life, to energize
the spectator into keener awareness of the
vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety,
and the wonder of life. This is
the function of the American dance.
?Martha Graham
An old cat will not learn how to dance.
?Moroccan Proverb
A poor dancer will be disturbed
even by the hem of her skirt.
?Polish Proverb
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
?Martha Graham
On with dance, let joy be unconfined,
is my motto; whether there's any dance
to dance or any joy to unconfined.
?Mark Twain
A good education is usually harmful
to a dancer. A good calf is better
than a good head.
?Agnes George DeMille
Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
?Judith Jamison
Remember, Ginger Rogers did
everything Fred Astaire did, but she did
it backwards and in high heels.
?Faith Whittlese
