Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlovna (Matveïevna)
Pavlova (12 February 1881 - 23
January 1931) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early
20th century.
She is widely regarded as one of the
most famous and popular classical ballet dancers in history and
was most noted as a Principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and
the BAllet Russe of Serge Daighilev. Pavlova is most recognised for the
creation of the role The Dying Swan and with her own company,
would become the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a bit of
insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
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Agnes de Mille
(18 September 1905 – 7 October
1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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", át
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Jaques D'Amboise
July 28, 1934 (1934-07-28)
(age 74)
D'Amboise was a principal dancer
with the New York City Ballet, where ballets were especially created for
him by famous choreographer George Balanchine.
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Dance is your pulse,
your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. Its the
expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
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Louis Horst
Louis Horst
(born Jan. 12, 1884Kansas City Missouri, U.S.; died Jan. 23, 1964New
York City) was a choreographer, composer, and pianist. He helped to
define the principles of modern dance choreographic technique, most
notably matching the choreography to the pre-existing musical structure
and the use of contemporary music for dance scores.
Horst was the musical
director for the Danishawn company (1916 to 1925) before working
as musical director and dance composition teacher for Martha Graham
school and dance company (1926 to 1948).
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Dance for yourself, if someone
understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.
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August Bournonville
August Bournonville 21
August 1805-30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and
choreographer. August was the son of Antoine Bournonville, a dancer and
choreographer trained under the French choreographer Jean Georges
Noverre, and the nephew of Julie Alix de la Fay, nee
Bournonville, of the Royal Swedish Ballet.
He studied under the
Italien choreographer Vincenzo Galeotti at the Royal Danish Ballet,
Copenhagen, and in Paris, France, under French dancer Auguste Vestris.
He initiated a unique style in Ballet known as the Bournonville School.
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The beauty to which the
Dance ought to aspire
is not dependent upon taste or pleasure,
but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation,
knowledge, and ability.
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not
only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the
soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy,
a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
It is the mission of art in general, and the theatre
in particular, to intensify thought, to elevate the mind, and to refresh
the senses. Consequently, the Dance ought above all to beware of
indulging a blasé public?s fondness for impressions which are
alien to true art.
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty,
while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the
heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it
can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult"
feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is
achieved only by the chosen few.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to
conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the
avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as
a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and
this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of
nations.
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Vicki Baum
(January 24,1888-August 29,1960) was
an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel ("People at
a Hotel", 1929), one of her first international successes.
Baum was born in
Vienna into a Jewish family. She began her artistic career as a musician
playing the harp. She studied at the Vienna Conservatory.
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There are short-cuts to
happiness, and dancing is one of them.
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Ludmilla Chiriaeff
(January 10, 1924-September 22,
1996) wasa Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and director.
In 1952 she founded
the Ballets Chiriaeff, a troupe of eighteen dancers which evolved into
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1958. In 1985 she was made a Grand
Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
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Dance is movement, and
movement is life.
{La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le mouvement, c'est la vie.}
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Mata Hari
Mata Hari was the stage
name of Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle
(7 August 1876, Leeuwarden 15 October 1917, Vincennes ), a Dutch-Frisian
exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for
espionage during World War 1.
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The dance is a poem of
which each movement is a word.
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Chuck Davis
Born on January 1, 1937, in
Raleigh, North Carolina; son of Tony and Ethel Davis; sponsor of 17
children in Africa.
Education: Attended Howard University 1966-68, majoring in
Theater and Dance.
Danced with Babatunde
Olatunji's Dance Company, Eleo Pomare's Dance Troupe, and the Bernice
Johnson Dance Company. Formed his own company, the Chuck Davis Dance
Company in 1967. Started DanceAfrica, a festival of dance, in 1977.
Joined the faculty of the American Dance Festival in 1974. Started a
second dance company, the African American Dance Ensemble, in 1983.
Organized Cultural Arts Safari, an annual pilgrimage to Africa.
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To understand the
culture, study the dance. To understand the dance,
study the people.
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Wendy Bounaventura
Wendy’s work as writer,
performer and choreographer has been widely praised in the press. She is
known internationally for her innovative and beautiful performance work,
combining text and dance.
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All dance is about sensual expression.
It is about energy and vitality, and it is one of the most liberating
activities available to us.
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Kizlarkhon
Dustmuhamedova
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Art always unites people
−
their hearts and nations around the world.
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Debbie Dee
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Dance – an art form.
The body – an instrument.
Learn to play the instrument and master the art form.
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Gabrielle Roth
Gabrielle Roth is a
musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording
artist in the world music and trance dancegenres, with a special
interest in shamanism.
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The self is a dance, constantly in
motion.
Dance is movement, is action, and
like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
When we give ourselves over
completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer.
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Confucius
Confucius (551-479 BCE), according
to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and
founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. His teachings,
preserved in the Lunyu or Analects, form the
foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education
and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his
live and interact with others, and the forms of society and government
in which he should participate. Fung Yu-lan, one of the great 20th
century authorities on the history of Chinese thought, compares
Confucius' influence in Chinese history with that of Socrates in the
West.
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Never give a sword to a
man who can't dance.
Everything has its
beauty but not everyone sees it.
Choose
a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
If I
am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I
will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad
points of the other and correct them in myself.
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Rumi
Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn
Muhammad Balkhī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn
Muhammad Rūmī, but known to the English-speaking world
simply as Rumi, (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273),
was a 13th-century Persian poet, Jurist, Islamic theologian and mystic,
Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning "the
Roman" since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm
because it was once ruled by the Byzantine Empire.
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Whosoever knoweth the
power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
Let the beauty of what you love be what
you do
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance,
if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Dancing
is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around
in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your
heart to pieces and giving up your.
In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Without love, all
worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.
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John Dryden
(19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700)
was an influential English poet, literary, critic,
translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of
Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in
literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
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Dancing is the poetry of
the foot.
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Voltaire
Author and Philosopher
Francois Marie Arouet(pen name Voltaire) was born November 21, 1694-1778
in Paris. Voltaire's intelligence, wit and style made him one of
France's greatest writers and philosophers.
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Dancing is an art because it is
subject to rules.
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D.H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence
(11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was English author, poet,
playwright,essayist, and literary critic.
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We ought to dance with
rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate
cosmos.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April
1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and
translator.
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Dancing can reveal all
the mystery that music conceals.
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Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2,
1859 - July 8, 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social
reformer.
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Dancing is the loftiest,
the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere
translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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William James
(January 11, 1842 – August 26,
1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as
a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of
psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious
experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism.He was the
brother of novelist Henri James.
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Common sense and a sense
of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense
of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April
1906 – 22 December 1989) was Irish writer, dramatist and poet.
Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally
and philosophically became increasingly minimalist.
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Dance first. Think
later. It's the natural order.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October
15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a nineteeth century German
philosopher and classical philologist . He wrote critical texts on
religion, morality, contemporary culture , philosophy, and
science, using a adistinctive Germn language style and
displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism. Nietzsche's influence
remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in
existentialism and postmodernism.
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I would believe only in
a God that knows how to dance.
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all
noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and,
need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
And those who were seen
dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
I do not know what the
spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer.
For the dance is his ideal
.
We should consider every
day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Ezra Pound
(October
30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) Ezra Pound is generally considered the
poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic
in poetry.
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Music begins to atrophy
when it departs too far from the dance.
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (pronounced
(2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and
painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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So you can't dance? Not at all? Not
even one step? . . . How can you say that you've taken any trouble to
live when you won't even dance?
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R. G. Collingwood
Robin George Collingwood (February
22, 1889 - January 9, 1943) was a British philosopher and historian.
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The dance is the mother
of all languages.
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John Wain
(baptised John Barrington Wain,
March 14, 1925 - May 24,1994 ) was an English poet, novelist and
critic associated with the literary The group Movement.
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Poetry is to prose as
dancing is to walking.
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Jean Dubuffet
Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le
Havre. In 1918 he went to Paris where he gave up his course in painting
at the Académie Julian after six months and started working on
his own.
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Dancing is the last word
in life.
In dancing, one draws nearer to oneself.
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Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10,
1940 in Detroit Michigan ) is a popular American self-help
advocate, author and lecturer.
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When you dance, your
purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Begin
to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born
Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family at Ulm, in Württemberg,
Germany, on March 14, 1879- 18 April 1955 in
USA.
He is best known for his theory of relativity and expressed mass-energy
equivalence specifically by the equation E = mc2.
Einstein received in 1921the Nobel Price in Physics "for his
services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the
law of the photoelectric effect.
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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Hopi Indian Saying
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To watch us dance is to
hear our hearts speak.
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Japanese Proverb
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We're fools whether we
dance or not, so we might as well dance.
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Mr. Miyagi
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Never trust spiritual
leader who cannot dance. The Next Karate Kid, 1994
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Unknown
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Dancing with the feet is
one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
Dance is a delicate
balance between perfection and beauty.
My feet shall run
because of you, My feet, dance because of you, My heart shall beat
because of you, My eyes, see because of you, My mind, thinks because of
you, And I shall love because of you.
Love is a lot like
dancing-you just surrender to the music.
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Shanna LaFleur
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It takes an athlete to
dance, but an artist to be a dancer.
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Terence
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They who love dancing
too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
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Kirsty Nilsson
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Dance is advanced body language.
Dancing is the world's favorite
metaphor.
It is not the movements that make a
dance beautiful,
it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful.
Musicality is when the dancers'
movements appear to create the music -and not the other way around.
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Scott Nilsson
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Dance is the poetic baring of the
soul through motion.
Life is better with a little drama in
it.
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Marie Brooks
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Movement without meaning
is just exercise.
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Frederich Busch
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Good art is a form of
prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
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Tayyar Akdeniz
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The mother of the dance is the melody because she
gives you everything, tells you everything you need to know, like a
mother. The father of the dance is the rhythm and he is the strong one,
the leader, the authority - as a father should be!
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Eugene Louis (Luigi)
Faccuito
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To dance, put your hand
on your heart
and listen to the sound of your soul.
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Links
Alvin Ailey Dance, Fuschia
"This
is dancing to die for."
The Times (London, UK)
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