Quotes: Dance

We’re going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now – it’s almost an ultimate in absurdity.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven’t. I am grateful to them for that.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company’s 25th Anniversary.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.