Isadora Duncan Quotes

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm not used too.

I danced modern dance my whole life, and it makes me feel young again.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

I love to shake my hips, my hair, and my boobs. It's all about having fun and sharing your spirit with other people.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

They danced by the light of the moon.