"For the Indian,dance is a personal form of……" — 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 doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance."
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Jamake Highwater
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15 Quotes by Jamake Highwater
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We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an…
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At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize…
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as…
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended…
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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep…
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape…
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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their…
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body…
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather…
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We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion…
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For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
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Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants…
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