“Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth” YearsMayHas BeensEndsFormWealthStageDivineFlowerSourceLimitsLateLowsDancingMereGloriousThis DayPhasesInwardProfessionalismFadingFrivolousProficiencyMay Flowers Author:Ruth St. Denis
“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.” InspirationalArtSoulBodyUsedCommunicationDancingDanceDancerBalletJust DanceBallet DancerChoreographersInspirational DanceMusic And DanceShort DanceToo DeepBallet DanceBallet DancingDancers InspirationFunny DanceClassical DanceA Loss For Words Author:Ruth St. Denis
“I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.” PeopleWayLongDifferentFoundLeftGivenForeverTenTheaterDancingDanceDaringLong LifeExoticJust DanceVogue Author:Ruth St. Denis
“When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!” IfsStillsYoungBoysFeetDancingDanceCuriosityFiftySixtySeventiesPhenomenalJust DanceOld YouFeet Off The Ground Author:Ruth St. Denis
“It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.” YearsArtFormSpiritReligiousConsciousnessFlowerDancingDanceFleshDivisionDefiniteReligion And Art Author:Ruth St. Denis
“But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.” WholeRealityUniverseDancingDanceDenial Author:Ruth St. Denis
“I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.” LongMomentsSpaceDancingTime And Space Author:Ruth St. Denis
