Polovtsian Dances

Polovtsian Dances

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Live a balanced life -
Learn some and think some,
and draw and paint and sing and dance
and play and work every day some.
~ Robert Fulghum





The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music...
Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes De Mille



You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies,
that is why you must sing,
and dance, and write poems, and suffer,
and understand, for all that is life.
~ Krishnamurti

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Clive James



Those who danced were thought to be quite insane
by those who could not hear the music.
~ Angela Monet



Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness
has never danced in the rain.
~ Unknown



And David danced before the LORD with all his might....
~ 2 Samuel 6:14, Holy Bible

Praise him with the timbrel and dance:
praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
~ Psalm 150:4, Holy Bible

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness....
~ Psalm 30:11, Holy Bible

To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
~ Psalm 30:12, Holy Bible



I don't want people who want to dance,
I want people who have to dance.
~ George Balanchine

We should consider every day lost
on which we have not danced at least once.
And we should call every truth false
which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique,
they are great because of their passion. ~ Martha Graham

When you take dancing lessons,
you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps.
It can go on for a long time.
And then one day, you just learn to dance,
and it is so different.
~ Bill Austin

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time,
when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
~ Michel de Montaigne



Dance is the hidden language of the soul,
of the body
~ Martha Graham

Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth.
~ Mark Twain

Daddy, when can I dance on TV?
~ my granddaughter Tori, age four, after her second dance recital

"Prince Igor ~ First Movement"
Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
Sequence by J. Nishio
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