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”The Gods have meant
That I should dance
And in some mystic hour
I shall move to unheard rhythms
Of the cosmic orchestra of
heaven
And you will know the language
Of my wordless poems
And will come to me
For that is why I dance.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”It is this mission of the dancer
to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old;
you're just uninteresting.
When you are sixty, and still dancing,
you become something of a curiosity.
And boy! if you hit seventy,
and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!”
- Ruth St. Denis
”I see dance being used as communication
between body and soul,
to express what is too deep, too fine for words.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”It is not a question of who dances
but of who or what does not dance.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”But in reality we are accompanied by the
whole dancing universe.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”I have performed for thousands
when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring,
but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten
people...
They were the ones that left the theater forever different
from the way they were when they came in.
All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”It was then that my religious consciousness emerged
to flower years afterward into definite forms
of religious dancing in which there is no sense
of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of
life
to all who have the urge to express beauty
with no other instrument than their own bodies,
with no apparatus and no dependence on anything
other than space.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary
sense
that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.”
- Ruth St. Denis
”You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge
which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.”
- Ruth St. Denis
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