Ancient Quote by Reza Abdoh

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

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

— Jack Waters

To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from.…

— Pina Bausch

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

For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us…

— Jennifer Homans

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

— August Bournonville

Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.

— Natalia Makarova

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone…

— Alla Osipenko

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Ted Andrews

Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy…

— Goa Gil