Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez....

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Sensuality came into existence the moment when the first beat of melody knocked on the door of the world of belly dance.

Praise to the creator who magnifies a drop of joy within a soul into an ocean of bliss every time footsteps begin to dance.

You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now

Dance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame.

I actually quit ballet when I was 14,

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

He can hum the music in his old man’s quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on in violins and reedy winds. If he imagines it in rehearsal he can...

Almighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion.

Sword of Raks is a symbol of a dancer with creative empowerment

It’s probably one of the biggest cornerstones in the classical repertoire. It represents a standard of classical ballet that we still hold high.

God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise.

Jeremy Irons of ballet.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.

Dancers are the flag bearers of the artistic renaissance.

Real men don’t lift weights, they lift women.

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I...

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Dance is the guide of the spirit’s journey to the stairway of heaven.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

Classical ballet will never die.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

I think it’s Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Could she press it all the way through to the floor?” And, you know, I’m not sure about that myself. The sole of your boot might give me a bit of trouble, but nothing else...

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful....

Beginnings of youth to growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes.