Composition Quote by Julia Cameron

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

— Ted Shawn

Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.

— Ilana Mercer

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

— Martha Graham

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination...

— Doris Humphrey

“Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.”

— Kristine Stiles

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

— Igor Youskevitch

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”

— Erol Ozan

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be…

— Richard MacDonald

When you are a dancer your body speaks, my body can express itself.

— Shakti Mohan

There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into…

— Justin Peck