“Be available.” -Ohad Naharin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anaïs Nin

“The body is the shore on the ocean of being” – Sufi

“Don’t wait for someone to make your life terrific, that’s your job!” – anonymous

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."  Brian Tracy

“ Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” - Goethe

“Sometimes your joy can be the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy” – Thich Nhat Hahn

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." Albert Einstein

"Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us" - Sir Ken Robinson

"When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome" John Wooden.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”  Marcel Proust

“Just do it”  Nike

“Play is the highest form of research.”  Einstein

"The opposite of play is not work, it is depression." Brian Sutton-Smith

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear or childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”  C.S. Lewis

“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”  Aristotle

“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand” Confucius

"I don't know what it is, but it's all clear." Julyen Hamilton

"Life happens: in fits and starts, in multiple layers of time simultaneously. Then you understand parts and processes after the fact. " Jack Gallagher

“Life's passing as we are dancing, moving, living!” Celine Perroud

“Artists don’t have to save the world, they simply have to keep reaching, and seeking.” Ami Garmon

“What does it mean to be a dancer? To embody emotions in motion" - Andrea Olsen

"It's about being present. And that awareness is what makes a dancer an artist." - Kristin Schwab

"Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means" - Doris Humphrey

"Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure." - Doris Humphrey

"Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it." - Merce Cunningham

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead." - Morihei Ueshiba

"Art is an attempt to give substance to existence." - Sondra Fraleigh

"Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality." - Arthur Koestler

"It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to." - Jean-Luc Godart

“The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.” - Mark Vernon

“Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.” - Merce Cunningham

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.” - Epictetus

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” - Epictetus

“Transformation is the very nature of man.” - Boyan Manchev

“No limits exist except the limits which exist within me.” - Hooman Sharifi

“The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.” Pina Bausch

"And isn't that what teaching is all about? To provide opportunities and experiences that open people's minds." - C. Wells

"Learn what you already do in order to be able to choose what you will do." - Donald Schön

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille

Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Terri Guillemets

Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~Martha Graham

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. ~Ted Shawn, Time, 25 July 1955

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. ~W.H. Auden

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. ~Terri Guillemets

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~Martha Graham

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. ~Robert Brault,

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~Martha Graham

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~Mata Hari

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~Source Unknown

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any

harm to the world.” ― Voltaire

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

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.” ― Rumi

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” Mikhail Baryshnikov

 “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.” ― Martha Graham

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” ― Merce Cunningham

“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. ” ― Martha Graham, Blood Memory

“Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.” ― Louis Horst

“In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.” ― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.”  ― Pina Bausch

“The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.” ― Mikhail Baryshnikov

“You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?” ― Judith Jamison, Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?

Vicky: Why do you want to live?

Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but... I must.

Vicky: That's my answer too.”

― The Red Shoes

“It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.” ― Dan Pearce

“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” ― Molière

“Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.” ― Alexandra Chauran,

“If you get all tangled up, just tango on.” ― Al Pacino in Scent of Woman

“World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”― Amit Ray

“If dancing was illegal, I'd be a notorious Criminal.” ― Humphrey Ominisan

"Easy does it!" Kirstie Simson

"Joyfully serious, seriously joyful." John Britton

"Do the obvious." Julyen Hamilton

"I aim to play lightly" Eva Karczag

“Replication is impossible, inspiration rather than imitation!” Frey Faust

“If you get stuck this way, try the other way” Job Sanders

“Every movement has its sound, every sound has its movement” Andrew Morrish

“You, me and mother earth” David Zambrano

“Connect to your pleasure” Ya’ara Moses

“Look at it with a different pair of glasses.”  Jo Butterworth

"constant change is here to stay" irmgard bartenieff

"Some understand and some understand later" Julyen Hamilton

"I don't know what it is, but it's all clear" Julyen Hamilton

“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.” Maxine Greene