Ludmilla Chiriaeff famous quotes

Dance is movement, and movement is life.
-- Ludmilla Chiriaeff

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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.