"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

~ Twyla Tharp

"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out."

~ Katherine Dunham

"I don't feel that I'm there just dancing for myself, you know? I'm dancing for the audience."

~ Carmen de Lavallade

“Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice."

~ Pearl Primus

"Our arms start from the back because they were once wings."

~ Martha Graham

"I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them."

~ Pina Bausch

"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."

~ Isadora Duncan

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer"

~ Shanna LaFleur