Expression Through Movement Quotes

I always wanted to thrill people with my dancing - just as how K-pop dancing thrilled me.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

Dance is music made visible

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what I'm saying?

I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

To dance is to live!

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

The floor exercise is a way to express your personality.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

People have always asked me why my favorite event was floor, and my answer was always, 'Because I love to dance!'

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

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