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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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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
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We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for…
— Bill Russell
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Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly…
— Janet Morris
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will…
— James Dobson
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
— Robert Fisk
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Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately…
— Joan Blades
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When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if…
— Marcel Proust
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Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does…
— Stuart Scott
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Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us.
— Stuart Scott
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We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring…
— Sophy Burnham
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Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move…
— Jamake Highwater
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