To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Interpretation
Dancing allows individuals to transcend their everyday selves and experience a sense of beauty and empowerment.
This quote emphasizes that through the act of dancing, one can elevate their spirit and connect with a greater sense of self. It suggests that dance is not only an expression of art but also a powerful means of empowerment and an opportunity to embrace one's own glory and potential in life.
In practice
Using this quote during a dance workshop to inspire participants.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
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