Costumes Quote by Jamake Highwater

“Most Indian tribes considered the eagle a great and powerful spirit. His courage was admired, his strength envied. The great height to which this…

— W. Ben Hunt

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

— Shirley MacLaine

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

— Ted Andrews

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“Most of the old Indian dances had very definite purposes. The Hopi Snake Dance and other dances of the Southwest were prayers for rain.…

— W. Ben Hunt

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift…

— Plato

All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing.

— Wovoka

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

— Merce Cunningham

“ Eagle Dance and Green Corn Ceremony The Cherokee Eagle Dance combined many songs and different dances. The dancers dressed like eagles and moved…

— Anne M. Todd

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

The good thing about Indian dance is that it relies a lot on communication. There is nothing that can't be communicated by Bharatanatyam.

— Shobana

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham