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No one can arrive from being talented alone.

God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.

Do it big, do it right, and do it with style.

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Ted Shawn

(1891-1972), originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St. Denis he is also responsible for the creation of the well known all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. With his innovative ideas of masculine movement he is one of the most influential choreographers and dancers of his day. He is also the founder and creator of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Time, 25 July 1955

Dance communicates man’s deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ruth St. Denis

(January 20,1879- July 21,1968) was an early modern dance pioneer. Ruth St. Denis founded Adelphi University's dance program in 1938 which was the one of the first dance departments in an American university. It has since become a cornerstone of Adelphi's Department of Performing Arts.

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

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

Isadora Duncan

May 26, 1877 – September 14, 1927

Dancer, adventurer, revolutionist, ardent defender of the poetic spirit, Isadora Duncan has been one of the most enduring influences on 20th century culture. Ironically, the very magnitude of her achievements as an artist, as well as the sheer excitement and tradgedy of her life, have tended to dim our awareness of the originality, depth and boldness of her thought.

Isadora was a thinker as well as poet, gifted with a lively poetic imagination, a radical defiance of "Things as they are," and the ability to express her ideas with verve and humor. To best understand Isadora, she was a theorist of dance, a critic of modern society, culture, education and a champion of the struggles for women's rights, social revolution and the realization of poetry in everyday life.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

The Dance – it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

We had never imagined that what is deepest and most active in the life of the mind could be expressed by the hands, the fingers, the soles of the feet − not merely the face.

The Russian magazine Iskusstvo, 1905, in reference to Isadora Duncan.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Edwin Denby

(February 4,1903-July 12,1983) was one of the most important and influential American dance critics of the 20th century, as well as a poet and novelist.

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

Agnes de Mille

(18 September 1905 – 7 October 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Martha Graham

(May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost of pioneers modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts. Graham invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. 1953

George Balanchine

(January 22, 1904 – April 30, 1983), born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgian parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical forms and techniques. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he did not illustrate music but expressed it in dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky, his contemporary.

George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense, but see, policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.

Paul Taylor

Born July 29, 1930 is one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century. Paul Taylor is a wonderful dancer.

He performed in the companies of Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham and George Balanchine, and founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954.

I like to think dance is an international language that all people can appreciate.

All societies have some form of dance as a form of communication.

Nelly Mazloum

(Alexandria, Egypt, 9 June 1929; d. Athens 21 Feb. 2003) Artist, teacher, choreographer, dancer, director, actress, researcher, writer, creator of the Nelly Mazloum "Oriental Dance Technique" and the Vivicorporeal® Technique.

Founder of the Nelly Mazloum Arabic Troupe of Dancers "Raqs Al Ta' Biry" 1956 Cairo .

Winner of the "LAUREATE" and the silver medal for the specialty of "danses folkloriques, solistes professionnels", αt the VIII FESTIVAL MONDIAL DE LA JEUNESSE ET DES ETUDIANTS POUR LA PAIX ET L'AMITIE - Concours Artistiques Internationaux - Representing Egypt in 1962.

Founder of the MADRI Institute, 2001.

From 1956 to 2003 Nelly Mazloum was the first who did a lot to propagate Oriental Dance Technique and its traditional style Internationally.

Dance is the mathematics of the Soul

A body in movement is its philosophy.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul.

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

The mind approves and the body consents.

Get smart, work hard and remain truthful to those who have taught you something to better love and serve your dancing.

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.

Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.

Alicia Alonso

Alicia Alonso (born Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez Hoya on December 21, 1920) is a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer. She is considered a legend. Since she was nineteen, Alicia was afflicted with an eye defect and was partially blind. Her partners always had to be in the exact place she expected them to be, and she used lights in different parts of the stage to guide her.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

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