Ability Quote by Joan Acocella

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it…

— Havelock Ellis

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more…

— Twyla Tharp

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, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

— Igor Youskevitch

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

— Ted Shawn

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

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, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

— Ilana Mercer

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we…

— Anonymous