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If you can dream it, you can do it... (Walt Disney)

  

Dance how you want to dance it.... (Jacquelyne France)

  

What comes from inside shows.... (Jacquelyne France)

  

The teacher is there for guidance, they cannot tell your body or teach your body what to do, it is you in the long run who has to teach yourself...(Jacquelyne France)

  

Dance is an art that inprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do... (Shirley Maclaine)

  

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion....(Agnes de Mille)

  

Dance is freedom from reality.... (Jacquelyne France)
 

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.... (Alice Abrams)

 

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced..... (Paige Arden)

 

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.....(Fred Astaire)

 

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself......(Mihkail Baryshnikov)

 

Dance with your heart. Dance what you feel. Thats when you know that the dancer is real.........(anonymous)

 

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

 

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

 

When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance............(Hans Bos)

 

Dance every performance as if it were your last.........(Erik Bruhn)

 

Classical ballet is like being a mother: if you've never done it, you can't imagine how hard it is.........(Harriet Cavalli)

 

La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le mouvement, c'est la vie.
("Dance is movement, and movement is life")..........(Ludmilla Chiriaeff)

 

Dance is the hidden language of the soul and the body.........(Martha Graham)

 

It takes an athlete to dance but an artist to be a dancer.......(Anonymous)

 

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform and learn how to cope with injuries..........(D. Gere)

 

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music..........(Unknown)

 

Many of the simplest exercises become harder in the centre.......(Camilla Jessel)

 

I do everything I know how in a dance.......(Twyla Tharp)

 

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance........(Unknown)

 

 

11 Things a Dancer Should Promise Herself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To speak of health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something wonderful in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your dreams come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To always point your toes.