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Quotes by Dancer
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
88
"Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words."
72
"It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top."
65
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
63
"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
61
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
60
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
60
"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
60
"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."
59
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
58
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
58
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
58
"It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage."
57
"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
56
"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
Work,
56
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
56
"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
55
"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
55
"Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart."
54
"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
54
"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."
53
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method."
53
"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."
53
"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
52
"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
52
"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."
52
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
51
"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
51
"I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives."
51
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