We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it — Jamake Highwater Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share
“Not everyone has a voice. Many outsiders cannot speak through walls, and, as a consequence, they become silent and invisible. Some give up their… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share
“People who exist at the margins of society are very much like Alice in Wonderland. They are not required to make the tough decision… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share
