White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall"… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
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… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance,… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
