Classic Ballet Quotes

“Dance less in motion and more in spirit; awaken the dreamer within.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach; as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Classic Ballet,

Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns.

Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge.

Yours truly,
A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree”
― Paul Taylor, Private Domain: An Autobiography