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“They danced by the light of the moon.”

Light Moon Dancing Dance Ballet Spoons Just Dance Lear Quince Forks And Spoons

Author:Edward Lear

“Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.”

Knows Inspirational Writing Art Use Process Creative Singing Dance Creative Process Know Yourself Art Dance

Author:Catie Curtis

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

Inspirational Stars Teach Teacher Thousand Ten Bird Dancing Dance Deep Thought Live And Learn Inspirational Teacher

Author:e. e. cummings

“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”

Source: Future Primitive Revisited

“The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.”

Faces Dancing Dance Limbs

Author:Ninette de Valois

“I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.”

Inspirational Company Dance Kicks Buckets Closed Minded

Author:Tori Amos

“This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.”

Inspirational Real Culture Impact Dance Clubs Dance Music

Author:Tori Amos

“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”

“Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.”

Wells Art Action Culture Force Nature Natural Existence Seeing Movement Balance Dance Appreciation Rhythm Defined Planes Choreographers Organised Art And Culture Art Appreciation

Author:Rudolf von Laban

“The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.”

Discipline Essentials Dancing Dance Devotion Dancer Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance

Author:Merce Cunningham

“Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”

Years Children Kids Song Names Music Modern Rocks Dance Folks Singers Rhythm Features Rock N Roll Swings Starving Folk Music Plantations Blues Music Folk Songs Folk Art Levees

Author:Alan Freed

“It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.”

Inspirational Shows Culture Community Becoming Dance Metals Really Cool Dance Music Becoming One Music Culture

Author:Jonathan Davis

“Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.”

Doe Add Dancing Dance Dancer Solo Quartets Choreographers

Author:Steve Paxton

“Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.”

Way Motivational Moving Boys Century Dance Dancer Exceptional

Author:Fred Astaire

“Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.”

Art Exercise Dance Ballet Ballerina Choreographers

Author:Alicia Alonso

“I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.”

Knows Interest Fame Glory Dance Happy Not Interested Choreographers Inspirational Dance

Author:Frankie Manning

“The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.”

World Want Inspirational God Time Change Music Lord Power Musician Dance Greed Creator Changing The World Want U Making Changes Drummer Chanting Drumming

Author:Babatunde Olatunji

“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”

“It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.”

Doe Dance Denial Ballet

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.”

Should Body Realizing Dance Denial Revolutionary Ballet Vivid

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.”

Whole Reality Universe Dancing Dance Denial

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.”

People Inspirational Wish Sex Dance Teenage

Author:Laurie Anderson

“I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.”

Inspirational Fighting Dance

Author:Johnny Depp

“At the still point, there the dance is.”

Stills Beautiful Scene Dance Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

“The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.”

Art Soul Body Mother Break Dancing Dance Distinction Breaking Down

Author:Curt Sachs

“The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.”

Joy Energy Mankind Expression Dancing Dance Excess Motor Joy Of Living Dance Life

Author:Curt Sachs

“The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.”

Knows Littles Shows Animal Movement Dancing Dance Enthusiasm Variety Zest

Author:Curt Sachs

“Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.”

Humans Dancing Dance Creator Mood Human Life Significance Ecstatic Carrier

Author:Curt Sachs

“In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.”

Wells Self Country Loss Europe Dancing Dance Ancient Sections Asia Sects Ancient Times Motifs Armenia

Author:Curt Sachs

“It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.”

Body Form Spirit Consciousness Divine Dancing Dance Devotion Limitation Remove

Author:Curt Sachs

“Every dance is and gives ecstasy.”

Giving Dancing Dance Ecstasy

Author:Curt Sachs

“The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.”

Children Soul Forget Existence Stage Arms Adults Weight Dancing Dance Rounds Contact Companion Slips Twilight Rigidity Ballroom

Author:Curt Sachs

“The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."”

States Can Do Wonder Dancing Dance Tension Dancer Staying Superhuman Hypnosis Staying Power Superhuman Powers

Author:Curt Sachs

“A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.”

Children Littles Persons Dancing Dance Shoulders Dancer Continents

Author:Curt Sachs

“If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.”

Ifs Important Play Happens Asks Dancing Dance Customs Puberty Initiation Festivities Bushmen

Author:Curt Sachs

“In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus force themselves into the same stride and the same movement. The closer the contact, the stronger is the social character of the choral.”

Character Culture Force Social Levels Movement Higher Stronger Dancing Dance Contact Ties Dancer Stride Higher Level

Author:Curt Sachs

“The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.”

People Stills Form Dancing Dance Circles Continents Chimpanzees

Author:Curt Sachs

“Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.”

World Culture Known Fronts Dancing Dance Circles Huts

Author:Curt Sachs

“Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.”

Consciousness Four Wall Dancing Dance Four Walls

Author:Curt Sachs

“The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play, is widely diffused and may be confidentally assigned to a Protoneolithic culture level.”

Men May Play Form Culture Levels He Man Opposites Dancing Dance Forms Of Love

Author:Curt Sachs

“The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.”

Men Years Rocks Information Painting Years Ago Dancing Dance France Primitive Primitive Man

Author:Curt Sachs

“Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.”

Needs Dancing Dance Witness

Author:Curt Sachs

“The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community.”

Community Chance Movement Dancing Dance Evening Spells Guests Casual

Author:Curt Sachs

“A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.”

Feelings Chance Dancing Dance Dozen Guests Gathering

Author:Curt Sachs

“Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.”

Years Enjoy Quality Talent Pure Twenties Dancing Dance Favors Spite Unusual Refinement Tango Spaniards

Author:Curt Sachs

“At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.”

Mean States Lying Common Movement Emotional Roots Dancing Dance Various Rational Impulse Manifestation Resorts

Author:Jamake Highwater

“The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.”

People World Stories Vision Generations Events Dancing Dance Western Folks Alternatives Primal Western World

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.”

Has Beens Art Conscious Dancing Dance Observation Works Of Art Transformed Motor Rite Discharge Involuntary

Author:Jamake Highwater

“In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.”

Mistake Watches Dancing Dance Careful Dancer Making Mistakes Ritual Wounded

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.”

Social Grace Wife Husband Dancing Dance Sake Routine Nobility Peasants Exhibits Husband And Wife Social Graces Future Wife

Author:Jamake Highwater

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