Activity Quote by Ted Shawn

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

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

— Jack Waters

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 the most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

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 simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more…

— Twyla Tharp

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its…

— Joan Acocella

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is…

— Jacques d'Amboise

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

— August Bournonville

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 is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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