The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this s...chool of affected grace and toe walking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child. George Grainger: Dances like who?... Annie: Pavaliver--the Russian dancer. Don't be so ignorant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The actions of each dancer were scrutinized with great care and any little mistake noted and remembered. The strain upon a dancer ...was consequently so great that when a fine dancer died soon after a feast it was said, "The peoples' looks have killed him."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Harvey: You're a hell of a lot younger than I am. And you're a dancer. Gillian: I'm a singer.... Harvey: Well, you dance around when you sing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Come, walk like this,' the dancer said, 'Stick you your toes--stick in your head,... Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread-- Your fingers thus extend; The attitude's considered quaint,'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. W...e cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much has already been written of the uncanny ways in which Chaplin and Keaton seem to divide so much of the world, so precisely, b...etween them. Charlie the sentimentalist and Buster the ironist, the dancer and the acrobat, the critic of capitalist society and the deviser of happy-ending Edens outside of society--all these distinctions are well-known and important. But the most richly creative difference between these geniuses is in their language--not the language in their films (how wonderful it is that they are forever silent) but the language that their films make real. For Chaplin the space of the world is always and insidiously dangerous, perhaps even murderous. For Keaton, that same space is, breathtakingly, his toy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:... "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine... art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »