#dance

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#dances #expression #lie #music #never

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#before #bodies #dancers #floor #lies

Grandmother hates it when I do the "turkey dance." Basically, I lather my naked body in gravy and then spaz out on the kitchen floor. She just doesn't understand modern dance. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#modern-dance #turkey #funny

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#family #i #kind #our #our world

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#been #before #company #dancer #encouraged

I love to dance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #i love #love

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#also #beginning #between #body #clothes

I have worked with several dance companies. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#dance #i #several #worked

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#changing #dance #dance music #diversity #i

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#anger #avoidance #because #bit #deal