Pointe Dancers Quotes

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

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

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

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

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.