Achieve Quote by Jamake Highwater

“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the…

— Jamake Highwater

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

“The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall"…

— Jamake Highwater

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

At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we…

— Jamake Highwater

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

— Jamake Highwater

Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who…

— Jamake Highwater

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies…

— Jamake Highwater

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their…

— Jamake Highwater

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance,…

— Jamake Highwater

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life…

— Jamake Highwater

For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he…

— Jamake Highwater