Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

If I must die young, bury me in a music box. I’ll be the pale ballerina with dirtin her hair. Attach my painless feet to metal springs and open the lid when you visit.Watch me rise and pirouette, my arms overhead tickling the dark night’s belly until I’m dizzy, until the stars melt and spiral into a halo over my head and I’ve stirred my death into the sky.

— Jalina Mhyana

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Yet for a moment it seemed to him that the men who had dragged marble from Italy and porphyry from Portugal, who had ransacked the jungle for its rarest woods and paid their millions to build this opulent and fantastical theatre, had done so in order that a young girl with loose brown hair should move across its stage, drawing her future from its empty air.

— Eva Ibbotson

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

— Erol Ozan