"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
-Nietzsche

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The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
-Ruth St. Denis

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture.
-Isadora Duncan

We worked with a great deal of rigor. We worked six days a week, at least six hours every day. We did not perform much at all. It was really about the experience of learning and exploring and growing.
-Twyla Tharp

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
-Suzanne Farrell

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
-Suzanne Farrell

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
-Mikhail Baryshnikov

-To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.
-Merryl Brockway

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.
-Shanna LaFleur

If you really dance, the body is used so deeply that the whole energy becomes fluid. A dancer loses shape, fixity. A dancer becomes a movement, a process. A dancer is not an entity: he's movement, he's energy. He melts...And a dancer cannot retain his ego because if he retains the ego, that will be a jarring note in his dance.
-Osho