Academic Quote by Padma Subrahmanyam

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

— August Bournonville

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

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously…

— Ted Shawn

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

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

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

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 in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

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 is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that…

— Judith Lynne Hanna