Dance is music made visible. ~ George Balanchine

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Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~ Ted Shawn

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Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~ Martha Graham

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The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. ~ Bill Irwin

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Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing. ~ Twyla Tharp

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I want one word on my tombstone-dancer. ~ Agnes de Mille

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If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it. ~ Anna Pavlova

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How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~ William Butler Yeats

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

~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Those move easiest who have learned to dance. ~ Alexander Pope

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Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. ~ Unknown

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.    ~ Unknown

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It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ~ Shanna LaFleur

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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking. ~ Agnes De Mille

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Great artists are people who find ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ~ Margot Fonteyn

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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. ~ Fred Astaire

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If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream about it,--desire it. ~ Christa Justus

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Everyday there must be something I can't do, otherwise it's boring.  ~ Monet Robier