All the dancer’s gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
Dancing - Dance Quotes
Classical dancing is like being a mother: if you’ve never done it, you can’t imagine how hard it is.
I don’t want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
The ultimate effect of the great science of Fingerprints is this: that whereas a gentleman was expected to put on gloves to dance with a lady, he may now be expected to put on gloves in order to strangle her.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
There is nothing particularly nasty about being a relic of barbarism. Dancing is a relic of barbarism. Man is a relic of barbarism. Civilization is a relic of barbarism. But torture is not a relic of barbarism at all. In actuality it is simply a relic of sin.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you’re very lucky and have said your prayers.
No Sane man will dance.
