Quote Credit
|
The Quote |
| Fred Astaire |
"Dancing is a sweat job" |
|
|
| Anna Pavlova |
"Master technique and then forget about it and be natural." |
|
|
| Gwen Verdon |
"Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder". |
|
|
| Nicholas Brothers |
"We can't do those routines any more; we don't want to, &
I'll tell you why - it hurts!" |
|
|
| Mario Robau |
"Dance is the only sport I know, where a man can touch a woman
over most parts of her body, and she thanks you for it afterwords" |
|
|
| Kenny Wetzel |
(on California class rotation introductions) "Introduce
Yourself" ... "You could be dancin' with your future Ex-Husband" |
|
|
| Myrna Loy |
"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
|
|
|
| M.A. Ham (The Modern Dance) 1916 |
"There are only two places where indiscriminate hugging is
tolerated the brothel and the ballroom." |
|
|
| a Radcliffe president |
"Whatever you find to do in life, make sure it's something
you're passionate about,
because you'll be competing against people who are" . |
|
|
| Ninette de Valois (1918) |
"The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile
of the limbs." (a dance teacher) |
|
|
| Unknown |
Remember "Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic."
(I luv this one) |
|
|
| M.B. Gilbert |
"The tree of knowledge, blasted by desputes, Produces sapless
leaves instead of fruits" |
|
|
| M.B. Gilbert |
"One cannot become master of an art, without a knowledge of
its technique" |
|
|
| Carlo Blasis |
"The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises" |
|
|
| Mrs. Lilly Grove (1907) |
"A youth who is unskilled in the dance finds little favour
with the women" |
|
|
| Plato |
"In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how
to dance" |
|
|
| Only in America ... |
are there handicap parking places in front of Dance Studios and
skating rinks. |
|
|
| Plato |
"So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well" |
|
|
| Unknown |
Work like you dont need the money, love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like nobodys looking. |
|
|
| Unknown |
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything." |
|
|
| 'Débat de la Demoiselle et de la Bourgeoise' |
the latter accuses the gentlewoman of late rising, whereupon she
replies: "No; but we must spend our evening in dancing, and cannot
do as you who go to bed the same time as your hens" (c.1400s?) |
|
|
| Ovid (1878), watching Kate
Vaughan |
"Si vox est, canta; si mollia brachia, salta," (If
you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for
dancing.) |
|
|
| Unknown |
"If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you." |
|
|
| Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" |
"God match me with a good dancer" |
|
|
| George Carlin |
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot
hear the music." |
|
|
| Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" |
"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig" |
|
|
| Shakespere -"Hamlet" |
"You Jig,
you amble, and you lisp" |
|
|
| Moore- "Odes of Anacreon" |
"Memory wakes her magic trance, And wings me lightly through
the dance" |
|
|
| Solomon - 1000 B.C. |
"There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn
and a timeto dance" |
|
|
| Old Persian Proverb |
"He who danceth not, knoweth not the ways of life" |
|
|
| Confucius |
"A Nation's character is typified by its dancers" |
|
|
| St. Chrysostom |
"Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly,
not to leap impudently like camels" |
|
|
| Sir Francis de Sales |
"A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into
a dance, entereth into his possession" |
|
|
| Anonymous |
ABOUT BALANCE: "Crane's stand on one leg, but cannot dance
a step" |
|
|
| Plato |
"All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing
and dancing" |
|
|
| Morrocco |
"The dancer dies, but does not forget the shaking of his shoulders" |
|
|
| Anonymous |
"He that lives in hope, dances without music" |
|
|
| Cicero |
"No Sober Person Dances" |
|
|
| Nero |
"Give Me, your Pantomime, No gift could delight me more!" |
|
|
| Unknown |
"Dance, a Vertical expression of a Horizontal desire" |
|
|
| Perrot & Robert (1845) |
"Tell me how you do the polka, and I will tell you how you
love" |
|
|
| Mae West |
"Come Up and See Me Sometime" |
|
|
| UnknownMagazine Title |
"Uncle Sambo -- Mad for Mambo" |
|
|
| Lady Duff-Gordon |
(On sinking of the Titanic, a passenger) "It comes
as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to
let them do it" |
|
|
| Liebman |
"It's better to do an old thing thats good, than a new thing
thats bad" |
|
|
| Amelia (1796) |
"Nature gives us limbs and art teaches us to use them"
(from the Philidelphia Minerva Mag) |
|
|
| The Cotillion |
"He's Holding a Candle For You" |
|
|
Bob Thaves
(Frank & Ernst cartoon) |
"Sure Fred was great, but don't forget, Ginger did everything
he did backwards
and... in high heels" |
|
|
| Ramon Navarro |
"Better Dancing makes Better Lovers" (Dance Magazine-1930's) |
|
|
| Theophile Gautier |
"Art For Art's Sake" |
|
|
| Evaluation of Fred Astaire's very first screen test: |
"Can't act!. Can't sing!. Balding!. Can dance a little"
|
|
|
| John Milton, L'Allegro |
"Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe." |
|
|
| Milton |
"Come, Knit hands and beat the ground, In a light fantastic
round" |
|
|
| Tully |
"He is not a sober man that danceth" |
|
|
| Winston Churchill |
(on being at a party...) "You're drunk" to which
churchill replied "You're ugly. Tomorrow, I'll be sober" |
|
|
Theodore Roosevelt
(apply this to dance contests) |
"Far better it is, To dare mighty things, To win glorious triumphs,
Even though checkered with failure. Than to live in that grey twilight,
that knows neither victory Nor defeat" |
|
|
| Anatole Chujoy - 1949 |
"A great art is never a product of any one artist, but the
temper of the folk and the times" |
|
|
| Locke |
"Nothing appears to me to give children so much confidence,
and so to raise them to the conversation of those above their age,
as dancing" |
|
|
| Unknown Writer |
"As barbarians are observed to have the strongest passions,
so they are also observed to be the most easily affected by sounds,
and the most habitually addicted to dancing" |
|
|
| Pope |
"They move easiest who have learned to dance" |
|
|
| Edward Ferrero |
"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined" |
|
|
| Mae West |
"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of
it" |
|
|
|
|
