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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…
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At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states…
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the…
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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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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch…
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine…
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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to…
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
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For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to…
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We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a…
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For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly…
— Walter Pater
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When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation…
— Peggy Fleming
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries…
— Jamake Highwater
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments…
— Robert Motherwell
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
— William Safire
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When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit…
— Thomas Moore
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