Dance Quote by La Meri

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

— Merce Cunningham

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance…

— Martha Graham

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense…

— Ruth St. Denis

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

— Ted Andrews

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

— Natalia Makarova

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 the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

— Anna Pavlova

I think there's a spiritual element to dancing in general. There's a reason why in every culture, dancing seems to be in our DNA.

— Jon Hopkins

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been…

— William Cobbett

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia