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I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

— Richard MacDonald

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.'

— Tracy Anderson

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

— Martha Graham

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

— Isadora Duncan

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

— Mika

When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.

— Lyndsy Fonseca

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

— Sutton Foster

I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.

— Misty Copeland

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

— Sharon Lawrence

✗Opposing Perspectives

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

— Antony Tudor