Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — 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" about which I will often speak in this book is not an organism or a membranous extension of some inborn aspect of "human nature". It is a mechanistic process-a barrier meticulously constructed by erratic community decrees… — 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 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
