Dance Quotes

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and…

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin (1937-2008), American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author.

Leaving the ground always feels amazing to me. In some roles I am like a sprinter, a muscle machine. In others – like Giselle –…

In my time at English National Ballet, all my main ballerinas have been mothers or have become mothers while they were lead ballerinas. I have…

Miss Fracci as the Sylphide who prettily lures a young Scotsman to leave his fiancée and fly with her to the woods, was like a…

There’s a proverb, ‘if you talk to a man about himself, he will listen for hours’, and I think that’s key. If people feel represented…

The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it… very young married ladies may be allowed…

I had to find a music that thinks like a body, not a mind. You allow it to breathe; it’s a very graceful thing to…

Today I see young dancers who think they are doing well because they have a million followers. But the followers have seen snapshots, short videos….

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov  

In no other art can one find a comparable gap between what the world thinks of a star and what the star thinks about himself…

We cannot, should not, dance everything. Ballet must remain closely linked to dance itself: ballet cannot be the illustration of any other art. Ballet should…

Aren’t all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night….

Samuel Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do? Associate: Modern dancing. Goldwyn: I don’t want her then; modern dancing is so old fashioned….