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Dancing Quotes by Jamake Highwater
- 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…
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- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry