Rhythmic Movement Quotes

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I'm an excellent dancer. I keep up with whatever's hot. I've been break-dancing and pop-locking since back in the day.

I was not an athlete, but I was a break-dancer. I was a beatboxer, an entertainer.

Peter Parker can't dance. He can flip and climb up walls and do backflips, but he definitely can't dance.

Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.

Life without music would be a mistake.

I'm from Chicago, so you know we come from juking and footwork.

I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.

I took tap classes growing up.

I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

I love dancing to hip-hop music - anything with a good beat.

I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.

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.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

I don't just rap - I sing and I dance as well.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.