Dance Quotes by Ruth St.
Denis
”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
”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
”It is not a question of
who dances
but of who or what does
not dance.”
- Ruth St.
Denis
|