Quotes on Dance
The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it… very young…
Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do? Associate: Modern dancing. Goldwyn: I don’t want her then; modern…
Tamara Rojo
In my time at English National Ballet, all my main ballerinas have been mothers or have become mothers while they…
Carla Fracci
Miss Fracci as the Sylphide who prettily lures a young Scotsman to leave his fiancée and fly with her to…
Susan Sontag
In no other art can one find a comparable gap between what the world thinks of a star and what…
George Carlin
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin (1937-2008), American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic,…
Serge Lifar
We cannot, should not, dance everything. Ballet must remain closely linked to dance itself: ballet cannot be the illustration of…
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov…
Thomas Adès
I had to find a music that thinks like a body, not a mind. You allow it to breathe; it’s…
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a…
Natalia Osipova
Today I see young dancers who think they are doing well because they have a million followers. But the followers…
Natalia Osipova
Leaving the ground always feels amazing to me. In some roles I am like a sprinter, a muscle machine. In…
Crystal Pite
There’s a proverb, ‘if you talk to a man about himself, he will listen for hours’, and I think that’s…
Robert Helpmann
Aren’t all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing…
