Inspiration

"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"- Agnes de Mille

"Dancers are the athletes of God." -Albert Einstein

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." -Jacques d'Amboise

"There are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words."
-Doris Humphrey

"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that."

-William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Sc. 3, line 140



"Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live."
-Wendy Buonaventura, Serpent of the Nile, Saqi Books, London, 1989. p196. 

“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” 

-Author Unknown

“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.” -George Balanchine

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

“I don't want dancers who want to dance. I want dancers who have to dance.” - George Balanchine 

"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat."
  - Anonymous

"I see  dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words." -Ruth St. Denis