Dance Is Life Quotes

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

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

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.