“Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.” WayArtMovementStonesDanceToneMusclesDance Is Life Author:Baker Brownell
“Nothing is more revealing than movement.” MovementDancingDanceRevealingJust DanceDance Performance Author:Martha Graham
“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.” ShouldHumansArtRunningFormImaginationMovementWalkingArt IsDanceExpertsJumpingRefinement Author:Twyla Tharp
“when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.” ArtCommonMovementLogicDancingDanceInevitabilityEgocentricClassical Art Book:Push Comes to Shove Source: Push Comes to Shove
“My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.” MovementSacredDanceTemplesVague Author:Mata Hari
“I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.” IfsThinkingI CanSometimesBlackWhiteWonderAudiencePiecesStageMovementMessagesDanceCrowdsApplause Author:Judith Jamison