Hathor

The quotations below come from a variety of sources. Some of them come not from famous authors but from "ordinary" women and men who dance Our Dance, and whose words I felt were eloquent enough to justify inclusion in this illustrious company. Friends, if I have misquoted you, please accept my apologies and correct me!

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution! - Emma Goldman

Bailas como sos (You dance who you are.) - Nito Garcia, Argentine Tango Master

Without dance I can not feel my soul, hear my heart, or see my dreams. - Nahara

Don't just do something, stand there! - Martha Graham

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

May our dance always be a bridge to understanding.
May our dance always be a celebration of diversity.
May our dance always be an instrument for peace.
- Laurel Victoria Gray 11.9.2001

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. - Friedrich Nietzsche

..and that the patterns you weave upon the night have such swift passion, such essential heat, that all the painter sees, the poet can write, are but pale shadows of your dancing feet.... - Humbert Wolfe

A dancer is not great because of her technique. A dancer is great because of her passion. - Martha Graham

...leila gamal, who has a luscious figure, and a concept/energy style of moving that is just delicious, like honey pouring slowly. someone on this list once said something like "she was fabulous not in spite of not being a sizable woman, but *because* she was." - Shakira, ME Dance teacher & performer from Ohio, USA

Work as though you don't need to, love like you have never had a broken heart and dance as if no-one is watching. - Anon (that great philosopher)

She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind. - Khalil Gibran 'The Wanderer'

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good. - Polish Proverb

The heart of the dance is the heart of the dancer. - Ghazallah al-Badriyyah

Listen to the music. - Hossam Ramzy (the best piece of dance advice I've ever had)

A solid, confident and well-founded sense of self worth is one of the most attractive features a woman can have. It is completely independent of physical form, and this dance is one of many avenues to developing that. - Aziza Sa'id.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. - Cher