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Quote by Isadora Duncan
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are

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 school of affected grace and toe walking. – Isadora Duncan

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It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. – Isadora Duncan

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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan

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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. – Martha Graham

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I am not the first straight dancer or the last. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. – Henry Fielding

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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, its the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. – Christopher Morley

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