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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 folk history told…

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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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