Inspired by Dance!

We are collecting famous quotes, or you own soon-to-be famous quotes about dance. 

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From Yvette:

A Poem by : by Jewel Mathieson

Read by Alicia at the Fall 2008 Hafla at Easton Yoga

1. We have come to be danced
   

2. We have come to be danced
   

3. Not the pretty dance
   

4. Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
   

5. But the claw our way back into the belly
   

6. Of the sacred, sensual animal dance
   

7. The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
   

8. The holding the precious moment in the palms
   

9. Of our hands and feet dance.
   

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11. We have come to be danced
    

12. Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance
    

13. But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
    

14. The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
    

15. The slap the apology from our posture dance.
    

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17. We have come to be danced
    

18. Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
    

19. One two dance like you
    

20. One two three, dance like me dance
    

21. but the grave robber, tomb stalker
    

22. Tearing scabs and scars open dance
    

23. The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.
    

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25. We have come to be danced
    

26. Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
    

27. But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
    

28. Shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance
    

29. The strip us from our casings, return our wings
    

30. Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
    

31. The shed dead cells and slip into
    

32. The luminous skin of love dance.
    

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34. We have come to be danced
    

35. Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
    

36. But the meeting of the trinity, the body breath and beat dance
    

37. The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
    

38. The mother may I?
    

39. Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance
    

40. The olly olly oxen free free free dance
    

41. The everyone can come to our heaven dance.
    

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43. We have come to be danced
    

44. Where the kingdom’s collide
    

45. In the cathedral of flesh
    

46. To burn back into the light
    

47. To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
    

48. To root in skin sanctuary
    

49. We have come to be danced
    

50. We have come.
    

From Tasha:

"Dance is emotion in motion". ~Azmara

From Alicia:

1. To dance is to be out of yourself. 
   

2. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. 
   

3. ~Agnes De Mille
   

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From Bridgette:

1. Dance when you're broken open; Dance, when you've torn the bandage off
   

2. Dance in the middle of fighting
   

3. Dance in your blood
   

4. Dance when you're perfectly free.
   

5. Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her
   

6. Like a wave crests into foam at the very top begins.
   

7. Maybe you don't hear that tambourine or the tree leaves clapping time
   

8. Close the ears on your head , listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes.;
   

9. There are other things to see, and hear: Music. A brilliant city inside your soul.
   

10. ~Rumi
    

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From Melanie:

“Dancing to me means freedom!”

Written By Robin:

1. Dance is my Yoga and Tranquility.  It allows me to step out of my world and bring my mind and body to a different place.  At the end of each dance I am always left with a smile!
   

From Shelly:

1. "To dance is to participate actively in the vibration of the Universe."
   

2. ~author unknown