Dance Quote by Horace Bushnell

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

— Haley Lu Richardson

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

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

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Those dances that require or permit the close embrace and suggestive movements . . . ought to be utterly prohibited.”

— Joseph F. Smith

Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place.…

— Margaret H'Doubler

“Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our…

— Paul Bamikole

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

— Martha Graham

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

— August Bournonville