Jamake Highwater Quotes

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• 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…
• At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot…
• 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…
• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted…
• 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…
• 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 of…
• 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 doesn't…
• We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that,…
• For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
• Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch…
• Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when…
• Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

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