Important Quotes From The Alchemist

The Quotes

Humans are measured not through their words but their deeds.
The abstraction of deeds is dance itself.

~ Chinvat – the Ninth Bridge
Winner − Special Jury Award, Hungarian Pan Art Festival
(from the promotional flyer)

In life as in dance:
Grace glides on blistered feet.

~ Alice Abrams

Beside the fire, as the wood burns black, a laughing dancer in veils of light, whose dance transforms the darkness to gold.

~ Adu Abd Allan ben Abi-l-Khisal ben Abi-l-Khisal

He who cannot dance will say: The drum is bad.

~ African Proverb

Kristy Nilsson - Tarentelle, Atlanta Ballet Centre Theatre

If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can walk, you can dance.

~ African Proverb

The
~ Sir Francis Bacon

The heart of the dance is the heart of the dancer.

~ Ghazallah al-Badriyyah

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette.
All I had was myself.
I was the instrument that I must care for.

~ Josephine Baker

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity.
Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo.
At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

~ George Balanchine

Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze

Джорджи Мелитонович Баланчивэйдз

Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

~ George Balanchine

(Choreography) is simpler than you think.
Just go and do, and don't think so much about it.
Just make something interesting.

~ George Balanchine

Dance is music made visible.

~ George Balanchine

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

~ George Balanchine

First comes the sweat. Then comes the
Here in a contemporary excerpt:

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

~ Darcey Bussell

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.

~ Lord George Gordon Byron

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum,
I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance.
I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

~ James Cagney

As a Kennedy Center Honor recipient on December 7, 1980, James Cagney wept openly as presenter Mikhail Baryshnikov related how Cagney's films had inspired him as a child to become the greatest male dancer of the 20th Century.
This is the performance that gave the world Baryshnikov:
James Cagney - "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers
From their own Music when they stray.

~ Thomas Campion

The further off from England the nearer is to France