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//ballet tips
quotes[0]='Ballet is "the geometrical groupings of people dancing together, accompanied by the varied harmony of several instruments" (Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, writing in 1582)'
quotes[1]='Modern dance is the name given to a dance tradition that arose as a reaction to ballet. It may have started as a rebellion against the formalism and conventions of ballet, but it was probably also a reaction to the sorry state of Western European ballet in the late 19th century.'
quotes[2]='In ballet so much depends on the movements and positions of the dancer. When dancing you cannot always watch yourself, mirror or no mirror, and in any case you need constant guidance and correction from an informed and impartial observer.'
quotes[3]='Ballet shoes are peculiar in two respects: they have no heels and paper-thin soles, and the shoes are identical for right and left feet.'
quotes[4]='Many of the steps in ballet are done with the leg extended; the kicks we associate with a chorus line are like this. For various reasons having to do with the structure of the hip joint, a dancer can obtain the greatest extension if the leg is rotated outward, away from its usual position.'
quotes[5]='A tutu is a light ballet skirt. There are two general kinds, the "romantic" tutu, a long, bell-like skirt extending to mid-calf or below, and the "classical" tutu, a very short, fluffy skirt that stands out almost horizontally from the dancers body.'
quotes[6]='Placement is, roughly, alignment of the body. Becoming properly placed means learning to stand up straight, with hips level and even, shoulders open but relaxed and centered over the hips, pelvis straight (neither protruding nor tucked under), back straight, head up, weight centered evenly between the feet.'
quotes[7]='On no occasion in the life of primitive peoples could the dance be dispensed with.  Birth, circumcision, and the consecration of maidens, marriage and death, planting and harvest, the celebration of chieftains, hunting, war and feasts, the changes of the moon and sickness - for all of these the dance is needed.-  Curt Sachs'
quotes[8]='Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing. -  Friedrich Nietzsche'
quotes[9]='For every prima ballerina absoluta, there are several dozen members of the corps.  But if you want to dance you don't care if you never even get to be a cygnet. -- Jess O Neill'
quotes[10]='To me dance represents life - and because life is rhythm, that of the heartbeat - dance is inseparable from rhythm.  It interprets our existence, to the extent that it represents all the rhythms, all the human pulsation. -- Maurice Bejart, b. 1927'
quotes[11]='Dancing is as great a mystery as painting or drama.  It serves no obvious purpose - yet it is as much a part of human life as food gathering and sleep. --  Dr. Maya V. Patel, b. 1943'
quotes[12]='So esteemed was dance that it was accepted practice for statesmen, generals, philosophers, and other outstanding Greeks of the Periclean Age to perform solo dances before audiences of many thousands, on important public occasions. -- Richard Kraus'
quotes[13]='The small child at dancing class may never become a professional dancer - but the courtesies and disciplines, as well as the joy in movement, will touch her forever. --  Helen Thomson, b. 1943'
quotes[14]='To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated. -- Plato (c.428 - c. 348 B.C.)'
quotes[15]='A nondescript teacher gives a child the chance to hear applause for the first time, at the local church hall.  A good teacher gives a child the ability to hear music with its whole body and to give it visible form. --  Pam Brown, b. 1928'
quotes[16]='If all children in every school from their entrance until their graduation . . . were given the opportunity to experience dance as a creative art, and if their dancing kept pace with their developing physical, mental, and spiritual needs, the enrichment of their adult life might reach beyond any results we can now contemplate. --  Margaret N. H Doubler'
quotes[17]=' All that is important is this one moment in movement.  Make the moment important, vital, and worth living,.  Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. --  Martha Graham (1893 - 1985)'
quotes[18]='When you perform . . . you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful.  You are for minutes heroic.  This is power.  This is glory on earth.  And it is yours nightly. -- Agnes de Mille'
quotes[19]='Nothing has ever taken its [ballet] place for disciplinary training.  There is not technique in any other style of dancing that is so valuable for producing exactitude, precision, sense of form and sense of line. --  Ted Shawn (1891 - 1972)'
quotes[20]='To enter the School of the Imperial Ballet is to enter a convent whence frivolity is banned, and where merciless discipline reigns. --  Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931)'
quotes[21]='Someone once said to me that dancers work as hard as policemen: always alert, always tense.  But you see, policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time! -- George Balanchine (1904 - 1983)'
quotes[22]='Dancing is a sweat job . . . When you are experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.  It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. --  Fred Astaire (1899 - 1987)'
quotes[23]='There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance. --  Rudolf Nureyev (1939 - 1993)'
quotes[24]='Ballet is not technique, nor a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other. --  George Borodin, from This Thing Called Ballet'
quotes[25]='The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music.  Bodies never lie. --  Agnes de Mille'
quotes[26]='Dance for yourself.  If someone else understands, good.  If not, no matter.  Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you. --  Louis Horst'
quotes[27]='To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; . . .  from Ecclesiastes'
quotes[28]='Abstract Ballet - A ballet without a plot.  A composition of pure dance movement expressed for its own sake.  Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (TMDCB)'
quotes[29]='Dance the technique - not the illusion. -- Wayne Applegate'
quotes[30]='Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards, and in high heels. -- Faith Whittlesey'
quotes[31]='Some people seem to think that good dancers are born.  All the good dancers I know have been taught or trained. -- Fred Astaire'
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