Alternatives Quote by Jamake Highwater

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill…

— Molière

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved…

— Margot Fonteyn

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human…

— Wade Davis

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 only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens…

— Curt Sachs

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

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

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

— Ira Glass

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look…

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Martha Graham

Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present…

— Flora Thompson