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Quotes and Aphorisms 13.07.2018

Dear readers, in our next sincere conversation, I would like to talk with you about dance and its role in our lives. Not so long ago, I discovered this direction of self-expression, but it has already entered my life so firmly that I can’t even imagine myself without it.

Dance is one of the oldest art forms. Whatever period of human life we ​​take, there will be dancing. Different in style and technique, in name, in the place where they were performed, but, nevertheless, the need to express emotions and feelings with the body has always been in a person. About what dance is, what a person is looking for in it, why dances give us such spiritual uplift and energy, it is clearly and accurately stated in quotes and aphorisms about dances.

Dance is a palette of feelings and emotions

What is dance? Omitting the dry definition of Wikipedia, we can say that dance is the flight of the soul. This is an opportunity to express all your emotions and feelings with the help of rhythm and movements without resorting to words. How wonderfully it is said about this in aphorisms and quotations about dances.

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. This is the rhythm of your life. It is an expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.”

Jacques d'Amboise

“Dancing is part of my soul. I like to dance, it makes people happy and it makes me happy.”

John Travolta

"Dance is the only art for which we ourselves serve as the material."

"Dance is the secret language of the soul."

Martha Graham

"Dance: the highest mind in the freest of bodies."

Isadora Duncan

"Dance is a poem, in it every movement is a word."

Mata Harry

"Dance is a kind of wordless rhetoric."

Canon Toyota Arbu

"Dance is a perpendicular expression of horizontal desires."

George Bernard Shaw

"Movement, dance - in my opinion, this is brilliant, because it is boundless self-realization."

"Who is interested in dancing, it costs nothing to fall in love."

Jane Austen

"Dance is the mother of all languages."

Collinwood

"There are fast paths to happiness, and dance is one of them."

Vicki Baum

“The soul can dance. The Greeks gave the name Terpsichore, the name of grace and harmony, to the soul seized with trembling.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

"The ability to dance gives you the greatest of freedoms: to express yourself fully as you are."

Melissa Hayden

“Dance is the mother of all arts. Music and poetry exist in time, painting and architecture exist in space. But dance lives simultaneously in time and space. Creator and creation… merge into one whole!”

Kurt Sachs

Great people about the art of dance

In the old days, the importance of learning to dance was equated with scientific disciplines, the inability to dance was considered a huge shortcoming in education. This is confirmed by quotes and aphorisms of great people that dance is a necessary skill for a person.

"Real education includes being able to sing and dance well."

"I would only believe in a deity who could dance."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Dancers are the athletes of God."

Albert Einstein

"Dancing is a great workout for girls, it's the first way to learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political mistakes, all the failures of great leaders, have arisen only because of the inability to dance."

Jean Baptiste Molière

"Dance is a way to achieve beauty, to master every muscle and direct it to happiness."

Maurice Bejart

"Dancing with its charm,
In flight, in a joyful impulse
Beauty is made more beautiful
Ugly people are made nicer."

Lope de Vega

“In dance, every movement is full of wisdom, and there is not a single senseless movement. Therefore, the militian Lesbonakt called the dancers "wise-handed."

Lucian of Samosata

Dance first. Then think. This is the natural order.

Samuel Beckett

The art of dance is the art of life

I have always been fascinated by professional dancers. They move as if the music itself flows through them. Their movements are mesmerizing and admirable. It is not surprising that their quotes and aphorisms that dancing is life so vividly describe the very essence of this art.

“Didn't Nietzsche say he wouldn't believe in a god who couldn't dance? I, too".

"If you could explain anything in words, there would be no point in dancing it."

"The dancer's body is just a luminous manifestation of his soul."

"I discovered the art of dance - an art lost two thousand years ago."

Isadora Duncan

“When we give ourselves entirely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer.”

Gabriella Roth

"Dance is a small model of life in a few minutes, with its own emotions and experiences."

Andrey Vavilin

"To dance is to affirm."

Bayard Call

“I don’t try to dance better than everyone else. I try to dance better than myself."

Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I dance because I am happy. I dance because I am free.

Tosha Brown

“I want to dance until I am 100 years old. And if you are not lazy, you will not last more than forty.

Maya Plisetskaya

“Dance is the most sublime, the most touching and beautiful of the arts, because it is not just an expression or a distraction from life, it is life itself.”

Havelock Ellis

Live dance music

Dance is not only the language of the body, but also the language of the heart and feelings. It helps music to become visible and tangible. Surprisingly, beautiful quotes and aphorisms about dancing were able to put it into words.

"Dance when the moon calls and don't think about troubles that haven't come yet."

Patricia Briggs

"The highest goal of dance is to show the body."

Amelie Nothombe

"Sometimes a dance is an excuse to hug a beautiful woman."

Arturo Perez-Reverte

"Dance is an attempt to express one's sense of the universe." “Passing through the heart, life is reflected in movements.”

Maria Berestova

“One person cannot make a dance; one flower cannot make a wreath.”

German proverb

"Movement never lies."

Martha Graham

"Dance is the poetry of the feet."

John Dryden

“Everything in the universe is rhythmic. Everyone is dancing."

Maya Angelou

“Only those who dance with their bare feet on thorny grass love to really dance.”

Thomas Fuller

“Dancing means being outside of yourself, bigger, stronger, more beautiful. In the dance - power, in the dance - the greatness of the Earth, it is yours - take it entirely.

Agyness deMille

“Imitate the wind when it breaks out of its mountain gorges: it wants to dance to the sound of its own flute, the seas tremble and jump under its feet.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dance is almost a declaration of love.”

Fedor Dostoevsky

“Dance. As long as the music is playing, keep dancing. Do you understand, no? Dance and don't stop. Why are you dancing - do not argue. What is the meaning of this - do not hesitate. It doesn't make sense, and never has. Think about it - your legs will stop. And if your legs stop even once, we will not be able to help you. All your contacts with the world around you will be cut off. Will break forever. If that happens, you can only live in this world. Gradually, you will be drawn here entirely. Therefore, it is impossible for the legs to stop. Even if everything around seems stupid and meaningless - do not pay attention. Follow the rhythm - and keep dancing. And then what is not completely hardened in you will slowly begin to dissolve.

Haruki Murakami

Dance to the beat of your heart

There are a lot of films about dancing, but among them, I think you will agree with me, the incredibly strong in terms of energy and feelings film “Dirty Dancing” with the magnificent Patrick Swayze in the title role stands out. This is really a hymn to dance, youth, drive and lightness! Quotes about dancing from this film have long become as popular as he himself.

“Yes, I am afraid of everything ... I am afraid that I will leave this room and not feel what I feel now. Dance with Me. - Here? - Yes!"

“Just knowing the steps is not enough. You have to feel the music."

"Dance like no one is watching."

“Dancing with your feet is one thing, dancing with your heart is another.”

“I always dance the last dance of the season. This year I was banned from dancing. But I'll still dance, and I'll do it my way. I will dance with a girl who not only dances great, but also taught me to fight for what is dear to me, at any cost. This girl opened my eyes to myself.”

“Keep your hands tight. Hard! This is not pasta for you. This is my dance space, this is yours. I don't invade your space, you don't invade mine."

About the magic of dance

Where does the magic of dance come from? What is the secret of his magic? After all, this is not only the mechanical movement of the arms and legs, the exact execution of the technique. What needs to be added to this to make it a truly mystical act? The answer lies in quotes and aphorisms about dancing with meaning.

“When you walk, don’t walk mechanically, don’t go on watching it – be it. When you dance, don't do it technically; technique is irrelevant. You can dance technically correctly but miss out on the joy of dancing. Dissolve yourself in the dance, become the dance, forget about the dancer.

Osho (Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh)

“I am drawn to large, generous movements, to such a dance that requires free space. This is the difference between my dance style and the style of most dancers. I think that the point here is not in the training system, but in temperament, in a personal attitude to dance. Many dancers try to contemplate themselves in the dance, while I try to give myself to the viewer, to fill the outer form of the ballet with inner life and feeling. This dance is the opposite of that kind of dance of the narcissistic artist, which allows contemplation of the feet, hands and fingers.

Rudolf Nureyev

“Dance with all the energy of your body and the fire of your soul to shake out all the melancholy from the liver, and unnecessary thoughts from the head. And certainly don't hold yourself back for fear of what people will think of you."

Margarita Blinova

“And just like in love, in dance it is important to relax and turn off your head, not to think about how it looks from the outside, not to guess what it will lead to. “Both in dance and in love, a man can “spin” a woman, preventing her from coming to her senses and getting scared: “Oh, what am I doing, what will happen next?”

Vladimir Nikolaev

“Ballet is not only technique. The best parties dance with the soul ... "

“I have never seen Anna Pavlova working in front of a mirror. The dance was formed in her soul, and when she felt it, she, after listening to the music several times, as if gradually merging it with the image that had arisen in her, began to express it at first with the movements of her hands, which were unusually expressive in her, and then gradually embodied him into a dance, as if listening to what she sang in her soul.

Victor Dandre

"Dance for yourself. If someone understands, it's good, if not, it doesn't matter, keep doing what you love.

Louis Horst

"They don't stop dancing because they get old, they get old because they stop dancing."

Jesse Newbern

Dance is forever

Dance for all the time of its existence has come a long way from the decorous medieval minuet to the extremely sensual modern ballroom dances. There are a great many varieties of this type of art, and all of them are so different from each other, but each is beautiful in its own way. About this - a selection of beautiful quotes and aphorisms about various directions in dancing.

"Ballroom dancing is a kind of demonstration of the mastery of plasticity and sensual dynamics."

Vyacheslav Zaitsev

"Ballet is hard labor in flowers."

Faina Ranevskaya

"Ballet is opera for the deaf."

Emil Krotky

"Tango is a bed where you are not ashamed to bare your soul."

Sergei Pichurichkin

“After a two-hour TV ballet, it's nice to watch traffic controllers at street intersections. How calming is the sight of movements that have some meaning.

Gabriel Bertel

“And so the fairy tale began. She unfolded gradually. The performers took to the stage at a leisurely pace. The women wore colorful skirts, blouses and flowers in picturesque, high Andalusian hairstyles. The men are wearing traditional tight-fitting trousers, vests and shiny horseskin ankle boots. The guitarist played a sad tune, and one of the seated women began to sing. The dancer came to the middle of the stage and began with a simple zapateado - she began to print steps, but gradually the rhythm of the guitar melody quickened and the tempo of the dance increased until it reached a sensual frenzy - something similar in ancient times was born in ancient gypsy tents.

Sidney Sheldon on flamenco dance

"Monotonous and insane,
Like a whirlwind of young life
The waltz is spinning, a noisy whirlwind,
Couple flickers after couple.

Alexander Pushkin

"Ballroom dancing brings only positive emotions."

Alexander Peskov

"Once dance was erotica, now it has become gymnastics."

Sydney Rome

"Each dance is a unique story of feeling: He and She merge in soul and body, and the flight begins along the waves of tenderness and temptation."

Dmitry Fateev

"Every tango is a farewell."

Yanina Ipohorskaya

"How can you dance "Rumba" without knowing true love?"

"Techno" is the best proof that machines can not only compose music, but also dance to it."

Zhanna Golonogova

"The essence of hip-hop can be summed up in three words: I am here."

From the movie "The Last Dance Behind Me"

Dancing brings so much energy and positivity into our lives, helps us become more relaxed and free, because dance is always a sip of something new. Now a great many hobby classes and studios have opened, where any person, even if he has never been involved in dancing, will find a direction to his liking. And in return you will receive a charge of vivacity and good mood, high self-esteem, good posture and plasticity. Make time for dancing in your life and you won't regret it!

What is this school where they teach Love and happiness?

Dance sayings:

Louis Horst:

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, it's good, if not, it doesn't matter, keep doing what you love.

Edwin Denby:

There is a bit of madness in the dance that is of great benefit to everyone.

Maya Angelou:

Everything in the universe is rhythmic. Everyone is dancing.

Isadora Duncan:

· If you could explain something in words, there would be no point in dancing it.

· Dance: Higher Mind in the Freest of Bodies.

· The dancer's body is simply a luminous manifestation of his soul.

· Only a genius can become worthy of my body.

· Similarly, there are three types of dancers: first, those who regard the dance as a kind of gymnastic exercise, consisting of impersonal and graceful arabesques; the second are those who concentrate and betray their body to the rhythm of the desired emotions, transmitting learned sensations or experiences. And, finally, there are those who turn their body into a brilliant stream, an element completely subordinate to the movements of the soul.

· There must always be a movement that perfectly expresses a given individual body, a given individual soul.

· In my school, I will not teach children to slavishly imitate my movements. I'll teach them my own moves. In general, I will not force them to memorize certain forms, on the contrary, I will strive to develop in them those movements that are characteristic of them.

· All movements must be judged in terms of purity and naturalness, and blind adherence to tradition is meaningless.

Gabriela Roth:

· If you don't dance your own dance, who will?

· When we give ourselves entirely to the spirit of dance, it becomes prayer.

· Dance is movement, action, and like any action, it opens us to ourselves in doing.

· Energy moves in waves. Waves become patterns. Patterns form rhythms. Man is only that - energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more, but nothing else. Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

· We must consider lost every day in which we did not dance at least once.

· I would only believe in a God who can dance.

A. Maslow:

Dance training is a special kind of training, it is an effort not to try, it is a training in spontaneity, voluntary self-denial, captivity, naturalness, Taoistic passivity.

Samuel Beckett:

Dance first. Then think. This is the natural order.

Ted Sean:

Dance is the only art for which we ourselves serve as material.

Jacques d'Amboise:

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. This is the rhythm of your life. It is an expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Agnes deMille:

· To dance means to be outside of yourself, bigger, stronger, more beautiful. In the dance - power, in the dance - the greatness of the Earth, it is yours - take it entirely.

· The true essence of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie.

Fred Astaire:

I don't want to prove anything with this. It is neither self-expression nor a way to release anything. I'm just dancing.

Tosha Brown:

I dance because I am happy. I dance because I am free.

Alvin Nicholas:

The essence of dance - and I will have to define the concept of "essence" - consists mainly in movement. Of course, you will immediately object that basketball is also associated with movement. It is - but not connected in the first place. The actions of a basketball player are a means to an end beyond movement. In dance, in fact, movement is an end in itself, it has no purpose other than itself.

Vicki Baum:

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dance is one of them.

Doris Humphrey:

The dancer believes that his art can say something that is inexpressible neither in words nor in anything else but dance... There are moments when the mere dignity of movement replaces whole volumes of words. There are movements that affect a person with incomparable force, because movements have the only, of their kind, ability to awaken feelings and emotions. This alone justifies the existence of the dancer and is the reason for his desire to comprehend more, to look deeper into his art.1937

George Borodin:

Ballet is not a technique, but a mode of expression that is closer to the inner language of a person than any other.

Martha Graham:

· The movement never lies. This is a barometer showing the weather in the shower.(quoting his father)

· Dance is the song of the soul. A song of joy or pain.

· Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

· Dance is the secret language of the soul.

George Balanchine:

I don't need people who want to dance, I need those who can't help but dance.

Pina Bausch:

I'm least interested in how people move, I'm interested in what moves them.

Adabella Radici:

Suppressing the need to dance is harmful to health - both the soul and the body rust.

Pamela Brown:

The child begins to sing before talking, to dance before walking. Music is in our hearts from the very beginning.

Ruth Saint Denis:

I understand dance as a means of communication between body and soul, a means of expressing what is inaccessible to words.

Christina Northrup:

We begin to heal our lives at the deepest levels when we begin to appreciate the body and its messages and stop feeling like a victim of it.

R. J. Collinwood:

Any language is<…>a special form of bodily gesture, and, in this sense, we can say that dance is the mother of all languages.

Blanche Evan:

Honest improvisation is a direct path to the unconscious.

Trudy Shoop:

Words cannot convey the immeasurable feeling of joy, love for life, the charm of existence, which embrace a dancing person. 1974

Lewis Carroll:

If you don't let me dance in my own way, I won't dance at all.

Jane Austen:

Enjoying the dance is a sure step towards learning to love.

Moshe Feldenkrais:

Movement improvement is the best way to improve.

Jesse Newbern

They stop dancing not because they get old, they get old because they stop dancing)

Miranda Wise (New York City Ballet)

Be fearless so that fear does not interfere with your life.

Unknown

· You can dance everywhere if dance is in your heart.

· You need to perfectly control your body so that it becomes obedient to every thought.

· Socrates learned to dance at the age of seventy because he felt that he had neglected an important part of himself all his life.

· Dance is a language that the whole world understands.

· Perfect dance - four legs, four arms, two heads - and one heart.

· Why don't you fall in love with the body if you sleep with it all your life?

· Dance like no one is watching. (film "Dirty Dancing")

Proverbs:

· Dancing with your feet is one thing, dancing with your heart is another.

· As a woman dances, so she loves. (Arabic proverb)

· If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance. (African proverb)



• Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. (James Brown)
• You can judge a king by the way they dance during his reign. (Chinese proverb)
• Dance is the only art form in which we ourselves are the instrument. (Rahel Farnhagen)
• The day was wasted if I didn't dance. (Nietzsche)
• Dance is the mother of all languages. (collinwood)
• Dancers are the athletes of God. (Albert Einstein)
  
• One who cannot feel the music considers the dancers to be insane. (George Carlin)
• I don't try to dance better than everyone else. I try to dance better than myself. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)
• A talented dancing couple is a capricious cactus that blooms once a year, and God forbid you mix up something in the composition of the soil or watering regime during the remaining 364 days - it will die. (Rauf Salakhutdinov)
• A successful dance partnership is like the relationship of good relatives - a lot of patience and mountains of work. (Kay Gilly)
• The dancer's ears are in his tiptoes. (Nietzsche)
• Imitate the wind when it breaks out of its mountain gorges: it wants to dance to the sound of its own flute, the seas tremble and jump under its feet. (Nietzsche)
• I want to dance until I'm 100. And if you are not lazy, then you will not last more than forty. (Maya Plisetskaya)
• The perfection of dance technique is not enough. Without the soul of a dancer, it is an orphan. (Sylvia Guillem)
• The ability to dance gives you the greatest of freedoms: to express yourself fully as you are. (Melissa Hayden)
• People express themselves most truthfully in dance. The body never lies. (Ange deMille)
• Only mediocrities dance with their feet. Geniuses dance with their hearts. (Dmitry Emets)
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of horizontal desires. (Bernard Show)
• Than to stomp your feet in anger, it is better to learn the tap dance. (Fred Astaire)
• If you are not invited to a white dance, do not be upset - be a man ... (V. Sumbatov)
• Dancing is joy and pleasure. If not, it's exercise. (Dassi)
• You can forget the movement, you can not forget the mood.
• Dance with all the energy of your body and the fire of your soul to shake out all the anguish from your livers, and do not restrain yourself, fearing that your partner will be afraid that the force of your movements will shake something out of your brains. (Lola Montez)
• When you dance, you don't sweat: you glow. (Didi)
• If you know the names of all the movements that you dance, then you are either a beginner or an international class dancer. (Dassi)
• When a person is happy, he dances. And when he dances, he is sometimes happy.
• Everything in the universe is rhythmic. Everyone is dancing. (Maya Angelou)
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. (Martha Graham)
• Dancing with your feet is one thing, dancing with your heart is another (proverb)
• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political mistakes, all the failures of great leaders, have arisen only from the inability to dance. (Jean Baptiste Moliere)
• They don't stop dancing because they get old, they get old because they stop dancing. (Jesse Newbern)
• Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. This is the rhythm of your life. This is an expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. (Jacques d'Amboise)
• To dance means to be outside of yourself, bigger, stronger, more beautiful. In dance - power, in dance - the greatness of the Earth, it is yours - take it entirely. (Agnes deMille)
• There is a bit of madness in the dance that is of great benefit to everyone. (Edwin Denby)
• Life is not choreographed. That's why I often fall. (Sasha Duncan)
• Dance for yourself. If someone understands - good, if not - it does not matter, continue to do what you love. (Louis Horst)
• Dance is the world's favorite metaphor. (Christy Nilsson)
• When we give ourselves entirely to the spirit of dance, it becomes prayer. (Gabriella Roth)

The collection includes quotes about dances and dancers:

• I want to dance until I'm 100. And if you are not lazy, then you will not last more than forty. Maya Plisetskaya
• Ballet is hard labor in flowers. Faina Ranevskaya
• I see the roots of dance in the richness of nature. Kazuo Ono
• Ballroom dancing is a kind of demonstration of the mastery of plasticity and sensual dynamics. Vyacheslav Zaitsev
• The couple flashes by the couple. A. S. Pushkin
• Ballroom dancing brings only positive emotions. Alexander Peskov

• Learn to save movement until you develop automatism. Robert Heinlein
• It was natural as a turn. Leonid Pletnev
• Whoever said "stupid as a tenor" apparently didn't know the dancers. Jerzy Villefort
• In a good dance there is not a single unnecessary movement. Fred Astar
• The way people move is their biography in motion. Jerry Spence
• You always need to figure out what you really want. Boris Moiseev
• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of horizontal desires. George Bernard Shaw
• The second is the first of the losers. Tarasova, figure skating coach
• Dancers are the athletes of God. Albert Einstein
• Looking at the beer, it's good to dance. Russian proverb
• Dance is a kind of wordless rhetoric. Canon Toyota Arbu
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  Discipline is one of the most necessary qualities of a dancer. Boris Moiseev
• Dance is the only art form in which we ourselves are the instrument. Rahel Farnhagen
• They danced that they were left without bread. Russian proverb
• Tango is a bed where you are not ashamed to bare your soul. Sergei Pichurichkin
• If you invited a girl to dance, and she agreed, do not rejoice: at first you still have to dance. Vyacheslav Berendakov
• Striptease is first of all a mood. "Cosmopolitan"
• If a girl dances badly, she scolds the orchestra. Jewish proverb
• Russia; hundreds of miles of fields and ballet in the evenings. Alan Hackney
• Art performs the task of preserving, as well as some embellishment of extinguished, faded ideas. Nietzsche
• The audience needs to be kept in suspense, to dance with feelings. Boris Moiseev
• How can you dance "Rumba" without knowing true love. Editorial
• Imitate the wind when it breaks out of its mountain gorges: it wants to dance to the sound of its own flute, the seas tremble and jump under its feet. Nietzsche
• When a person is happy, he dances. And when he dances, he is sometimes happy. Stanislav Popov, President of RTS
• Dance in three legs. Russian proverb
• Whoever knows how to dance, he dances anyway, and whoever does not know how, will not learn from a book. Edition of "Dance Klondike"
• A partner is not a luxury, but a means of transportation. Vitaly Leshchenko
• Castrati are the best dancers. Vladimir Kolechitsky
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  A lot of ballets would be amazing if not for the dance. "Evening Standard"
• Music is an invisible dance, just as dance is silent music.
• You can judge a king by the way they dance during his reign. Chinese proverb
• Folk dance is valuable because it reveals the character, experiences, culture, temperament of the people. Igor Moiseev
• You should never think that your partner is in any way worse than you. Moreover, it cannot be shown on stage. Maris Liepa
• Real education includes the ability to sing and dance well. Plato "Laws"
• No sane person would dance. Cicero
• Don't feel sorry for the heel, go trepak! Beat the trepak, do not spare the heel! Russian proverb
• Once dance was erotica, now it has become gymnastics. Sydney Rome
• Don't get carried away with food. Boris Moiseev
• Independence is one of the most significant and valuable acquisitions for a true artist. Boris Moiseev
• You don't have to love yourself in art, you have to love art in yourself. Stanislavsky
• You can't rest on what you've achieved. Boris Moiseev

• Our life can be full of loneliness, hateful monotony, and only in dance can we transform into fairytale kings and princesses. Dmitry Fateev, "Gala Waltz"
• Never criticize your partner. Brave Combo
• Real art survives in any situation. Yuri Bashmet
• Never dance with a partner who has more problems than you. Vyacheslav Berendakov
• Everything on the stage should sparkle, amaze, bewitch. Boris Moiseev
• The foundations are laid by the teacher. Igor Moiseev
• Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. James Brown
• A couple is a kind of painting that moves across the dance floor. Tatiana Kostina
• Better than ballet is only the corps de ballet. Gennady Malkin
• The first appearance on the floor must have an effect: you need to be remembered once and for all. Whether they love you later or not, it doesn't matter, but you will be remembered. Maris Liepa
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• After a two-hour TV ballet, it's nice to watch the traffic controllers at street intersections. How calming is the sight of movements that have some meaning. Gabriel Bertel
• Every tango is a goodbye. Yanina Ipohorskaya
• Isn't it obvious that dance is a complete metamorphosis? Paul Valerie
• Dancing is an exciting action that requires dedication, effort and time. Lev Leshchenko
• Standard dances are a discipline of the back. Leonid Pletnev
• If you can talk, you can sing; if you can walk, you can dance. African proverb
• A talented dancing couple is a capricious cactus that blooms once a year, and God forbid you mix up something in the composition of the soil or watering regime during the remaining 364 days - it will die. Rauf Salakhutdinov
• If it is ordained by God that you can dance, then you must give it away. Alexander Peskov
• Dance is the only art for which we ourselves serve as material. Ted Shawn
• You don't have to dance well to win the competition. Enough to dance better than others. Dassi
• Dance is the mother of all languages. Collinwood
• The day was wasted if I didn't dance. Nietzsche
• To dance is to assert. Bayard Call
• Listen to everyone, listen only to yourself and the coach. Leonid Pletnev
• Dancers are instruments, like a piano played by a choreographer. George Balanshine
• The whole field of dance has now expanded so much that it is the diversity that is of interest, and not some particular phenomenon that someone calls dance. Merce Cunningham

Aphorisms, quotes about dancing Dancing is a perpendicular expression of horizontal desires (Bernard Shaw) Dancing is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. This is the rhythm of your life. It is an expression in time and in motion, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. Men are like that. It seems that they go to look at the belly dance - but they still stare at the boobs. Dance is a poem, every movement in it is a word. Dance is movement, and Movement is LIFE! Who does not dance, he complexes. It is not the place that makes the dancer beautiful, but the dance. Dancing is joy and pleasure. If not, it's exercise. Beautiful handwriting is not given from birth - it needs to be learned; and ease of movement is the hallmark of one who knows how to dance. One who cannot feel the music considers the dancers to be insane. Tell me what your favorite dance is and I'll tell you who you are! Dancing is about creating an image for yourself, where you are part of something bigger, where you splash out your emotions, feelings and passion. It’s not enough to learn to dance: you still need to remember to do it. I dance because I am happy. I dance because I am free. I don't try to dance better than everyone else. I try to dance better than myself. Love --- kiss, scream --- suffer! The world is not like hell and heaven! There are no illusions and no limit, there is only the sound and dance of the body! When a person is happy, he dances. And when he dances, he is sometimes happy. Grasshopper dances are complete nonsense from the point of view of a butterfly. Novice dancers walk from crooked to crooked, while experienced dancers walk from bent to bent. Aphorisms and quotes If you can speak, you can sing; if you can walk, you can dance. (African proverb) Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. (James Brown) To dance is to affirm. (Bayard Call) You can judge a king by the way they dance during his reign. (Chinese proverb) Dancing is the only art form in which we ourselves are the instrument. (Rahel Farnhagen) The day was wasted if I didn't dance. (Nietzsche) Dance is the mother of all languages. (Collinwood) The way people move is their biography in motion. (Jerry Spence) Dancers are God's athletes. (Albert Einstein) Anyone who cannot feel the music considers the dancers crazy. (George Carlin) I don't try to dance better than everyone else. I try to dance better than myself. (Mikhail Baryshnikov) A talented dancing couple is a capricious cactus that blooms once a year, and God forbid you mix up something in the composition of the soil or watering regime during the remaining 364 days - it will die. (Rauf Salakhutdinov) A successful dance partnership is like the relationship of good relatives - a lot of patience and mountains of work. (Kay Gilley) A dancer's ears are in his tiptoes. (Nietzsche) Imitate the wind when it breaks out of its mountain gorges: it wants to dance to the sound of its own flute, the seas tremble and jump under its feet. (Nietzsche) O higher people, your worst thing is that all of you have not learned to dance, how to dance - to dance on top of yourselves! (Nietzsche) The gait reveals whether someone is already on his way - look how I walk! But whoever approaches his goal, he dances. (Nietzsche) I want to dance until I'm a hundred. And if you are not lazy, then you will not last more than forty. (Maya Plisetskaya) Perfection of dance technique is not enough. Without the soul of a dancer, it is an orphan. (Sylvia Guillem) The ability to dance gives you the greatest of freedoms: to express yourself to the fullest as you are. (Melissa Hayden) People express themselves most truthfully in dance. The body never lies. (Ange deMille) Only mediocrities dance with their feet. Geniuses dance with their hearts. (Dmitry Yemets) Dancing is a perpendicular expression of horizontal desires. (Bernard Shaw) Than stomp your feet in anger, it's better to learn tap dance. (Fred Astaire) Dance was once erotic, now it's gymnastics. (Sidney Rome) There is no time for slow dancing!... (Vladimir Vishnevsky) If you are not invited to a white dance, do not worry - be a man... (V. Sumbatov) Dancing is joy and pleasure. If not, it's exercise. (Dassi) You can forget the movement, you can't forget the mood. Dance with all the energy of your body and the fire of your soul to shake out all the anguish from your livers, and do not restrain yourself, fearing that your partner will be afraid that the force of your movements will shake something out of your brains. (Lola Montez) When you dance, you don't sweat: you glow. (Didi) If you know the names of all the moves you dance, then you are either a beginner or an international dancer. (Dassi) When a person is happy, he dances. And when he dances, he is sometimes happy. Everything in the universe is rhythmic. Everything is dancing. (Maya Angelou) Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion (Martha Graham) all political mistakes, all the failures of great leaders arose only from the inability to dance. (Jean Baptiste Moliere) Dancing is a great workout for girls, this is the first way to learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. (Christopher Morley) You don't stop dancing because you get old, you get old because you stop dancing. (Jesse Newbern) Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breath. This is the rhythm of your life. This is an expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. (Jacques d'Amboise) To dance means to be outside of oneself, more, stronger, more beautiful. In dance - power, in dance - the greatness of the Earth, it is yours - take it entirely. (Agnes de Mille) There is a little madness in dance that brings great benefits to everyone. (Edwin Denby) Life is not set by a choreographer. That's why I often fall. (Sasha Duncan) Dance for yourself. If someone understands - good, if not - it doesn’t matter, keep doing what you love. (Louis Horst) Dance is the world’s favorite metaphor. (Christie Nilsson) When we give ourselves entirely to the spirit of dance, it becomes prayer. (Gabriella Roth)