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Dance Student Quotes
Student quotes for class
and practice -
how to get the most out of your dance training!
“When you stumble make
it part of the
dance.”
- Author Unknown
“Nothing happens in the
body
without happening in the
brain first...
dancing is 95%
mental.”
- Bobby Boling, A
Dancer's Manual
“It is not so much upon
the number of
exercises,
as the care with which
they are done,
that progress and skill
depend.”
- August
Bournonville
“Movement without
meaning is just exercise.”
- Marie
Brooks
“It's not magic! It's
physics.
The speed of the turn is
what keeps you upright.”
- Deborah Bull
“So if the dance is five
minutes long,
make yourself run for
perhaps eight
minutes.
That way, you over-train
and the dance will seem easier...”
- Deborah
Bull
“You can't reduce lactic
acid, but you can increase your tolerance to
it.
I do this through
running or cycling, but it's a good
idea
to match your training
bout to the type of dance you do.”
- Deborah
Bull
“You're not here by
mistake. Someone at your
audition
watched you dance and
saw something
special.
All you've gotta do is
figure out how to find that again.”
- Center
Stage
“The only way to do it
is to do it.”
- Merce
Cunningham
“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
“Many other women have
kicked higher, balanced
longer,
or turned faster. These
are poor substitutes for passion.”
- Agnes de
Mille
“The practice mirror is
to be used
for the correction of
faults,
not for a love
affair,
and the figure you
watch
should not become your
dearest friend.”
- Agnes de Mille
“When you fall, try it
again... everyone falls the first time!”
- Dave
Dodson
“If you dance, you dance
because you have
to.
Every dancer hurts, you
know.”
- Katherine Dunham
“There are three steps
you have to
complete
to become a professional
dancer: learn to dance, learn to
perform
and learn how to cope
with injuries.”
- D.
Gere
“It takes ten years,
usually, to make a
dancer.
It takes ten years of
handling the
instrument,
handling the material
with which you are
dealing,
for you to know it
completely.”
- Martha
Graham
“Learn by
practice.”
- Martha
Graham
“Practice means to
perform, over and over
again
in the face of all
obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of
desire.
Practice is a means of inviting the
perfection desired.”
- Martha Graham
“The next time you look
into the mirror,
just look at the way the
ears rest next to the
head;
look at the way the
hairline grows;
think of all the little
bones in your
wrist.
It is a
miracle.
And the dance is a
celebration of that miracle.”
- Martha
Graham
“The spine is the tree
of life. Respect it.”
- Martha
Graham
“Think of the magic of
that foot
upon which your whole
weight rests.
It’s a miracle and the
dance
is a celebration of that
miracle.”
- Martha
Graham
“To learn to dance by
practicing
dancing
or to learn to live by
practicing
living,
the principles are the
same.”
- Martha Graham
“Technical perfection is
insufficient.
It is an orphan without
the true soul of the dancer.”
- Sylvie
Guillem
“The more you understand
the music, the easier you can dance.”
- Orlando
Gutinez
“So many dancers rely on
some sort of magic happening on the
stage.
They never, for various
reasons, work full out in
rehearsal.
That’s very
uncreative.
They don’t discover the
kinds of things that add up
to
a remarkable
performance.”
- Benjamin
Harkarvy
“Dance is bigger than
the physical
body.
Think bigger than
that.
When you extend your
arm,
it doesn't stop at the
end of your
fingers,
because you're dancing
bigger than that:
you're dancing
spirit.”
- Judith
Jamison
“Every teacher will tell
you that you cannot dance classical
technique
with perfection, there
is no such thing, there is no way. So
you
have to adapt the
technique to your abilities or to your
deficiencies.
Learn to cheat!”
- Jiří Kylián
“Technique – bodily
control – must be
mastered
only because the body
must not stand in the way of the soul's
expression.”
- La Meri
“Ballet class is like
Life Lessons 101.
You learn some of life's
most important lessons
here
that you will carry with
you forever.”
- Joanne H.
Morscher
“Master
technique
and then forget about it
and be natural.”
- Anna
Pavlova
“No one can arrive from
being talented
alone.
God gives talent; work
transforms talent into genius.”
- Anna
Pavlova
“Either you do the
pirouette or you shoot
yourself.
One or the other, but
something must happen.”
- Monet
Robier
“Everyday there must be
something I can't
do,
otherwise it's
boring.”
- Monet
Robier
“It's the easiest things
that cause the most problems.”
- Monet
Robier
“Success is not the
result of spontaneous
combustion.
You must set yourself on
fire.”
- Fred
Sero
“Be responsible, a good
communicator, a good team
player,
while pursuing
individual dreams, and understanding the
pitfalls
of being a perfectionist
– a common
characteristic
among ballet staff and
students around the
world.”
- Mavis
Staines
“You have to believe
there's something at the other
side.
And you have to have
faith in
yourself.
You have to think that
you have the tools to accomplish
it.”
- Twyla
Tharp
“Though talent is
wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20%
talent.”
- Tad
Williams
“Discipline is the
mother of the
art.
Discipline is not
militaristic; the dancer must be
relaxed.”
- Maestro Hector
Zaraspe
“Dancers keep looking
for the perfect teacher without realizing
that
it's all there within
themselves. You teach yourself; your teacher is a
guide.
If you do not hear the
advice, corrections and words of your
guide,
it makes no difference
how great the teacher. You will never
dance.”
- Author
Unknown
“Even the greatest
dancers in the world must
submit
throughout their careers
to the continual corrections of daily
class.”
- Author
Unknown
“You will only get out
of a dance class what you bring to
it.
Learn by
practice.”
- Martha
Graham
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