Action Quote by Robin Wayne Bailey

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

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

I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.

— Haley Lu Richardson

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

— Gabrielle Roth

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is…

— Charles Baudelaire

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill…

— Molière

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, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.”

— Donna Goddard

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

— August Bournonville

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love…

— Curt Sachs

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 a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no way to…

— Twyla Tharp