Art Quote by Jamake Highwater

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

— Merce Cunningham

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

— Ted Andrews

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but…

— Havelock Ellis

Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches…

— Anna Halprin

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

— Merce Cunningham

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit

— Robert Battle

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and…

— Merce Cunningham

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

Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement.

— Twyla Tharp

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

— Shirley MacLaine

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

Dancing is a feeling expressed from the inside out.

— Mia Michaels