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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.
Jacques d'Amboise (1934-)
USA choreographer
So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.
Jacques d'Amboise (1934-)
USA choreographer
This wondrous miracle did Love devise For dancing is love's proper exercise.
Sir John Davies (1569-1626)
English poet and lawyer
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy - it becomes possible.
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
USA choreographer
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
USA choreographer
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
USA choreographer
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
USA choreographer
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)
USA choreographer
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
Edwin Denby (1903–1983)
USA dance critic
You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.
Edwin Denby (1903–1983)
USA dance critic
O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!
See the couples advance,::
O, Love's but a dance!
A whisper, a glance,
"Shall we twirl down the middle?"
O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!
Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
English poet
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
French painter
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
John Dryden (1631-1700)
English poet and playwright
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer
No, I can't explain the dance to you; if I could say it I wouldn't have to dance it!
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer
Argentine tango should be danced, not following the rhythm of the music, but against it.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer in: Seroff, Victor: The real Isadora. p. 36
The Dance is a religion and should have its worshippers.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer in: Seroff, Victor: The real Isadora. p. 42
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer
Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927)
USA dancer

Jean-Paul Lafitte
Isadora Duncan

Drawing, pen,
1909 approximately, France,
Magriel, Paul: Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan.
New York, Da Capo Press, 1977, p. 42.

Isadora Duncan

Demêtre Chiparus, (1888-1950),
Anaesthesia, culpture, statuette, bronze patiné and ivory; marble socle,
1920, approximately
41 cm height x 67 cm length,
U.S.A., New York, Shayo Gallery Inspired by Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan

Michail Dobrov,
"Isadora Duncan dancing ""Air gai"" from ""Iphigenia in Aulis"" by Gluck", Print, color,
1908, Russia, Moscow,
Bakhrushin State Central Theatrical Museum

Isadora Duncan

Charles-Louis Geoffroy de Chaume,

Drawing, color,
1909, France, Paris,
collection Madeleine Lytton.