Action Quote by Merce Cunningham

Dancing is the body made poetic.

— Ernst Bacon

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has…

— Plato

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.

— Gabrielle Roth

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 involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

— Natalia Makarova

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

— Igor Youskevitch

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

— A. J. Pritchard

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation…

— Gerald Jonas

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and…

— Merce Cunningham

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past,…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham