26 February, 2009

dance teaches life lessons.





well today i just wanted to share a few of my favorite dance quotes. dance quotes are not just for the dancer (trainer, teacher or choreographer). i read in psychology today (mag) that it reminds us that it's a way to live life.

*these quotes are also dedicated to the awesome, hard working, naturally talented dancers in my family:* ballercross & ten (i'm so proud of what you both do at/for school!)

now off to the quotes:

1. "Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals." - Charles Baudelaire

2. "We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." -Japanese Proverb

3. "Dancers are the athletes of God." - Albert Einstein

4. "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." - Faith Whittlesey

5. "Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision." - Merryl Brockway

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

7. "Life is a dance, from one stage to the next." - Anonymous

8. "Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays." - George Balanchine

9. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

10. "Dancers are among the most passionate and dedicated of artists and rarely take their work for granted." - Anonymous

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

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