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Words Quotes by Doris Humphrey
- There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
- The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful…
- The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
- The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there…
- Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind…
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