Dance Quote by Curt Sachs

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

— Neve Campbell

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

— Ninette de Valois

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive,…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history…

— Jamake Highwater

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor…

— Merce Cunningham

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is…

— Charles Baudelaire