If everything goes according to plan, it will turn your life upside down. What’s the plan and what’s the upheaval? We seek answers from those who have learned the magic of dance. Practically and theoretically.
There’s a problem – dancers aren’t very talkative. They prefer to show rather than tell. But there is a solution – to ask a question to someone who has spent a lifetime in dance. Here is not so much self-expression as philosophy. All the answers have long been formulated. Waiting for those who are ready to hear them.
Professional dancer, champion of Russia in Argentine tango
Dancing is the best way to be eternally young. They give people strength, energy and self-confidence. It is also an opportunity to make the world a kinder place.
By the way, writers and philosophers to talk about dance is very much like. They dig deep. They find subtle meanings and interconnections.
When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being yourself.
Paulo Coelho is a writer
Paulo Coelho
Dance is a way to achieve beauty, to own every muscle and guide it to happiness.
Maurice Béjart – French dancer, ballet master
Maurice Béjart
The creative search made by a dancer through plasticity is somewhat similar to that of an actor, who can read the same text in different ways, each time putting a different meaning into the words.
Rudolf Nureyev was a Soviet, British and French ballet dancer
Rudolf Nureyev
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham is an American dancer.
Martha Graham
I don’t try to dance better than everyone else. I try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov was a Soviet and American ballet dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dance is the highest mind in the freest of bodies.
Isadora Duncan – American dancer
Isadora Duncan
To dance is to be beyond oneself, bigger, stronger, more beautiful. In dance is power, in dance is the majesty of the Earth. It is yours – take it whole.
Agnes de Mille was an American dancer.
Agnes de Mille
When you develop in dancing, all your flaws gradually become your strengths. Sooner or later, but they do.
Henry Link is a dancer, one of the founders of hip-hop dance.
The ability to dance gives you the greatest of freedoms: to express yourself fully as you are.
Melissa Hayden is an American ballerina.
Melissa Hayden
In dance you don’t owe anyone anything, you just have the music and you’re in love with it, and the rest is between you.
Bob Fosse – American choreographer and dancer
Bob Foss
When we give ourselves entirely to the spirit of dance, it becomes a prayer.
Gabriella Roth is an American dancer, director and philosopher.
There is a bit of madness in dance that benefits everyone greatly.
Edwin Denby is an American writer of dance criticism
It is not at all necessary to talk to a person about literature; sometimes it is enough just to dance with them.
Françoise Sagan – French writer
Françoise Sagan
Enjoying a dance is a sure step towards the ability to love.
Jane Austen – English writer
Jane Austen
We should consider lost every day on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche is a German philosopher.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God respects you when you work, but loves you when you dance.
Sufi saying