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The further off from England the nearer is to France Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

English author

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

English author in: Alice in Wonderland

Classical dancing is like being a mother: if you've never done it, you can't imagine how hard it is.

Harriet Cavalli (1952-)

USA writer

Dance is movement, and movement is life.

Ludmilla Chiriaeff (1924-1996)

Canadian choreographer and director.(founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

St. John Chrysostom (347-407)

Greek theologian

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

Roman philosopher and statesman In: Pro Murena

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

Roman philosopher and statesman In: Pro Murena

You've got to sing like you don't need the money, Love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching, It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh

USA songwriters

The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)

USA author and political activist

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the "American Way of Life" is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old bald-headed and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiffassed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frug, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragassing across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)

USA author and political activist

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

William Cobbett (1763-1835)

English pamphleteer

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the Greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834)

English poet and philosopher

A nation's character is typified by its dancers.

Confucius (551-479 BC)

Chinese thinker

Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind.

Arlene Croce (1934-)

USA dance critic

1. Beginning dancer: Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer: Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer: Dances everything. Especially with beginners.

Dick Crum (1928-2005)

USA folk dance teacher

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

USA poet and playwright

The only way to do it is to do it.

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)

USA choreographer