"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."
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"Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up."
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"All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama."
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"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it."
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"I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen."
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"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."
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"I run on the road long before I dance under the lights."
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"In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance."
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"When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer"
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?"
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"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
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"Work like you don't need the money."
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"Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over."
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"To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people."
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"He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May."
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"Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass."
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"Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise."
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"Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists."
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"A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less."
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