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Jamake Highwater has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else…
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I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they dont know what…
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So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that…
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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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…
— Jamake Highwater
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While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal…
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…
— Elif Batuman
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