Dance Aphorisms (Not an advertisement)

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Dance Aphorisms

1.The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship. -- Havelock Ellis

2.One may judge a king by the state of dancing during his reign.
-- Chinese proverb

3.A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
-- Plato, Laws

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

5.The way people move is their autobiography in motion.-- Gerry Spence

6.Dancers are the athletes of God.-- Albert Einstein

7.If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.
-- Fred Astaire

8.Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.--Jane Austen

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

10.I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. --Mihkail Baryshnikov

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

12.There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.--Edwin Denby

13.When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal.--Ruth St Denis

14.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

15.Great artists are people who find ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.--Margot Fonteyn
16.Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.--Martha Graham

17.Dance is the hidden language of the soul.--Martha Graham

18.Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
--Martha Graham

19.Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.--Louis Horst

20.Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.--Clive James

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

22.Technique--bodily control--must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.--La Meri

23.I should not believe in a God who does not dance.
--Friedric Wilhelm Nietzsche

24....rhythmically challenged dancelexic--Younta [from Icono Clast]

25.Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
--Source unknown

26.Socrates learned to dance when he was 70 because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.--Source unknown

27.You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.--Source unknown

And then you have the quips used in my signature:

Life without dancing?
I don't think so......

The feet may learn the steps;
yet only the spirit can dance!

Dancing is the fastest way to get
a girl alone and into your arms in public.

The Tango smolders and burns. It ignites the
heart, the soul, and yes, the libido.

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass,
it's about learning how to Dance in the Rain!

Dance as if nobody is watching.

[dlb]

Look at those dancers gliding around.
Seems as is their feet
Don't hardly touch the ground.

Look at them smiling
Like they knew one another
And they never would come down. (David Crosby)