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We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. 

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; 
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet 
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. 
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~Dave Barry 

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze 

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille 

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Sweetpea Tyler 

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. ~Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle 

Dancing is the perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. 

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955 

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum 

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille 

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. 

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters 
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. 
~W.H. Auden 

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

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ~George Balanchine 

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire 

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett 

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips. ~Adabella Radici 

Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden 

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis 

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


Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham 


Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. ~John Northbrooke 


Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. ~Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, Evan Rogers, and Alisha Brooks, "Pon de Replay," performed by Rihanna 


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


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


The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~Mata Hari 


We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence 


Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. ~Sweetpea Tyler 


Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson 


And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 


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. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 


Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, 
Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. 
~Alexander Pope, Moral Essays 


Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."? ~Dave Sokolowski 


Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. ~Ezra Pound 


Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James 


Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~Kurt Vonnegut 


Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain 


To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying 


They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. ~Terence 


Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. 


Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. 


Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. 

We should consider every day lost 
in which we do not Dance at least once" Nietzsche 

Dance to express, not to impress 

It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful, it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful. Kristy Nilsson 

Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music -and not the other way around.~ Kristy Nilsson 

Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion. ~ Scott Nilsson 

"The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself." - La Meri 

"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances." - Maya Angelou 

"Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing." - Friederich Nietzsche 

Love like you've never been hurt, work like you don't need the money and dance like no one is watching 

"Safety pins are a bellydancers best friend" 

Thousands of emotions well up inside me through out the day. They are released when I dance. *Abraham Lincony* 

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. *D. Gere* 

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing. *Martha Graham* 

To touch to move to inspire- this is the true gift of dance. *Aubrey Lynch* 

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization. *Igor Youskevitch* 

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy. *Jaques D'Amboise* 

There is such a difference when you're dancing to music you really love, 
when there is this meeting of music and dancer that fuses into one. 
Those are the experiences we live for. 
~ Aisha Ali 

When you take dancing lessons, 
you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. 
It can go on for a long time. 
And then one day, you just learn to dance, 
and it is so different. 
~ Bill Austin 

Technique is what you need to do to dance well, 
principally to make it feel good to your partner. 
Style is everything else you do when you dance, 
hopefully to make it look good 
to your partner, and your audience. 
~ David Barker 

The dance: 
a minimum of explanation, 
a minimum of anecdotes, 
and a maximum of sensations. 
{La danse, un minimum d'explication, un 
minimum d'anecdotes, et un maximum de sensations.} 
~ Maurice Béjart 

Nothing happens in the body 
without happening in the brain first... 
dancing is 95% mental. 
~ Bobby Boling, A Dancer's Manual