The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.
August BournonvilleThe height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
August BournonvilleIt is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
August BournonvilleThe beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
August Bournonville