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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

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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…
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states…
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the…
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…
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…
Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to…
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to…
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a…
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in… — Chanakya
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man… — Charlotte Bunch
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious… — Ambrose Bierce
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge… — Marion G. Romney
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration… — George Washington
Here lies a man who was given a medal for killing two men, and a dishonorable discharge for loving one. — Unknown Author
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. — Confucius
I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you… — Nikola Tesla
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be… — Thomas Jefferson

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