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Definition of Dancer

Dancer

One who dances or who practices dancing.

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Dancer Quotations

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai E. Stevenson

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.
Leslie Caron

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
Leslie Caron

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.
Sasha Alexander

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de Mille

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

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

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
Jennifer Lopez

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Spike Lee

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
Robert Duvall

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
Suzanne Farrell

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
Suzanne Farrell

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
Suzanne Farrell

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Katherine Dunham

I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
Bebe Neuwirth

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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Dancer Translations

dancer in Dutch is danseres
dancer in French is cavlier
dancer in Italian is ballerino

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