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"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
"Dancers are the messengers of the gods."
"Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground."
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
"I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor."
"Come up and see me sometime."
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."
"As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules."
"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
"And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old."
"I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words."
"Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation."
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
"Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul."
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'"
"The spine is the tree of life. Respect it."
"My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement."
