Movement & Expression

Enjoy these dance quotes about movement and expression!

 ”The body says what words cannot.”

- Martha Graham

“There are times when the simple dignity of movement

can fulfill the function of a volume of words.”

- Doris Humphrey

“Move, and the way will open.”

- Author Unknown

“Learning to walk sets you free.

 Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all:

 to express with your whole self the person you are.”

- Melissa Hayden

”The truest expression of a people

is in its dance and in its music.

Bodies never lie.”

- Agnes de Mille

“It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter,

the fun the joy of dance.”

- Martha Graham

“The way people move

is their autobiography in motion.”

- Gerry Spence

“I came to see that movement is one of the great laws of life.

It is the primary medium of our aliveness,

the flow of energy going on in us like a river all the time,

awake or asleep, twenty-four hours a day.

Our movement is our behavior;

there is a direct connection between what we are like

 and how we move...

As people begin to move in their own way,

they are faced with feelings of surprise and delight

and often of anxiety and embarrassment.

Judgments, corrections and explanations are of no use.

It is their movement, and it happened just that way.

- Mary Whitehouse

“Music is the language of the soul,

dance is the language of the body.

Body and soul, music and dance conceive an instrument

of expression through which the spirit communicates.”

- Maestro Hector Zaraspe

“Your dance identifies who you are.”

- Author Unknown

“Movement never lies:

it is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather

to all who can read it.”

- Martha Graham

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.”

- Martha Graham

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening,

that is translated through you into action,

and because there is only one of you in all time,

this expression is unique.”

- Martha Graham

"Saying "I dance" would be an understatement

and an insult to my life.

I express. I move. I create.

Every dance movement I make

helps me orient myself in reality,

my own emotions, and my own body."

- Joseph Baldock