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Ballroom Dance Quotes

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Donna Goddard
“Dancing is an innately spiritual affair. Its height is Divinity and its depth is humanity. It is the ever-moving balance between independence and intimacy.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“The movement is part of the still. The still is part of the movement. The dancer can be still and still dance. He or she can move and still be still.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“Eventually, the master of dance arrives at the still point. Movement and thought, body and mind, are so refined and intentioned that everything moves from the calm still point. It is not to say that the movement is calm. It may be explosive, violent, and dramatic. However, the intention is calmly, deliberately focused. It is not altered by the ups and downs, the fluctuations, of the internal or external environment. The still point is thus never lost. The movement is part of the still. The still is part of the movement. The dancer can be still and still dance. He or she can move and still be still.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“Dancing with a partner becomes a consensual sharing of energy where the two individuals can ideally take their cue from the tremendous flowing Movement beyond themselves.”
Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

Donna Goddard
“Dance has the power to create happy moments—timeless moments when all is forgotten except the dance. The endless complaints and struggles are erased by being present in the calmness and unity. It is a spiritual experience because it is unifying, healing, happifying, and uplifting.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“Dance can transcend logical, time-bound, and place-specific limitations.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“Who cares about judges when you have each other and you are creating something together? Winning only matters when you don’t have what dancing really is.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“In amongst the momentary glory and inevitable change is the unrelenting, ferocious desire to express the soul through the mechanics of a limited body in the hope that it can bring some peace to a painful inner and outer world.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“If we want our men to dance, we have to inspire them. Not with blatant sexuality. That is too common, too little. But with something more, something bigger, something that will give them a reason to want to dance.”
Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

Donna Goddard
“If we want our men to dance, we have to seduce them. But with what? Not with blatant sexuality. That is too common, too little. But with something more, something bigger, something that will give them a reason to want to dance. We have to inspire them.”
Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

Donna Goddard
“The greatest joy of partner dancing is difference. You feed off each other and make the other better and more than we can be on our own.”
Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

Anna Burns
“Every one wanted to be her, to be ex-maybe-boyfriend's amazing championship mother, so they dispensed with the father, either pairing off themselves as two supremely costumed waltzing women, or else just pretending to have a male prop dancing partner, "for that way," explained wee sisters, "you get to dress up and be her every time." This explained the colour - for there had been an explosion of colour - plus fabric, accessories, make-up, feathers, plumes, tiaras, beads, sparkles, tassels, lace, ribbons, ruffles, layered petticoats, lipsticks, eyeshadows, even fur - I had glimpsed fringed fur - high heels too, which belonged to the little girls' big sisters and which didn't fit which was why periodically the little girls fell over, sustaining injuries. "But the thing is," reiterated wee sisters, "and you don't seem to be overjoyed by this, middle sister, you get to be her every time!”
Anna Burns, Milkman

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