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What a few people have said about dance...

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."  -- Havelock Ellis.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
--Martha Graham

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

Dance like no one is watching. --Mark Twain

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different. --Bill Austin

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. --Friedrich Nietzsche

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution. --Emma Goldman

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. --Unknown

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. --Diogenes

Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body --Martha Graham

 

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