Matt Wenckowski

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Imani English

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. And as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Angel Khaytyan

“It is only when you put free animals under false restrictions that they lose the power of moving in harmony with nature, and adopt a movement expressive of the restrictions place about them.”

Amelia Shultz

“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”

Jimi Loc Nguyen

"I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human."

Trey Johnson

“Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.”

Joseph Kudra

“It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.”

David Anthony Scheuerman

“And David danced before the LORD with all his might.”

Cameron Lasater

"The boy stood up shakily, and looked once more at the pyramids. They seemed to laugh at him, and he laughed back, his heart bursting with joy. Because now he knew where his treasure was."

Kalli Loudan

“Art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

Björn Helget

“If i tell you i am good probably you'll say i am boasting. But if i tell you i am not good you know i am lying!”

Sarah Goldstone

Kody Jauron

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Teresa Marsala

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

Sierra Herrera

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

J Stephens

“The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but that you can become.”

Marco Huicochea Gonzàlez

“With the thirsty beast in chest, frisky butterflies in head, and the imponderable courage of the roebuck, my body shall morph and dressed in armored beauty”

Marc Macaranas

Mikee Ellis

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.”

Adeline Else

"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."

Isaiah Cavallero

“I see dance being used as a communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep for words.”

Jade Monet Hooper

“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”

Claire Binguit

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.”

Marissa Horton

“nolite te bastardes carboradorm.”

Ghrai DeVore-Harrison

Louis Jackson

Liv Schaffer

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Cole Vernon

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Amber Jackson

Greta Baker-Hodge

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

Greg Blackmon

"You must have chaos within you to give rise to a dancing star."

Keon Nickie

“Live Life To The Fullest – We are here on earth for a reason, and if we do not inhale all that is to experience in life, then who will for us?”

Mia Philippon

“Believe what you can. Believe what you want to become. Believe in yourself. That is the root for everything.”

Julien Valme

“Yet am I good for something, yet am I aware of some reason for existing! I know that I might be a totally different man! How then can I be useful, how can I be of service! Something is alive in me: what can it be!”

Mikayla Heinrich-Wong

“To dance is to feel the resonance of your life, to feel delight in your existence. To be human is to be danced by experience, energy, and emotion.”

Lawrence Neuhauser

Kara Hunsinger

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others.”

Angela Dice Nguyen

“You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.”

Donna Vaughn

Katlin Michael Bourgeois

"When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do."

James Gowan

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

Steffi Cheong

“The 3 P's...Passion, Persistence, & Patience applies to almost everything in my life.”

James Johnson

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Andrew McShea

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

Nick Kearns

“Go within every day and find the inner strength, so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

Elijah Richardson

"It doesn’t matter how high you can lift your leg, just sit, and open your eyes and open your heart."

Kimberly Davis

“Make life your masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”

Racquel Mar

“When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves."

Eugene Peabody

Kim Bleich

“Don't stop 'til you get enough.”

Sarah Jones

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."

Imani Williams

"We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way."

Rebecca Niziol

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Ginny Ngo

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

David Gourov

"Trust the still, small voice that says, 'this might work, and I’ll try it.' "

Hannah Mu

"The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it. Art is the transforming experience."

André Kasten

Sarah Stockman

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

Demetrius McClendon

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Toni Lum

“Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. All you need is love.”

Ashley Rivette

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”