“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
“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
