Dance Quotes

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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….

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

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…

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….

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…