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For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
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Celebrate
Mean
Mystery
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Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.
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Art
Names
Needs
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What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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Ordinary
Play
Sex
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.
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Art
Dance
Conscious
Dancing
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Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance.
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Dance
Doors
Europe
Gay
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The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.
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Dance
Dancing
People
Vision
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In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.
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Dance
Dancing
Mistake
Watches
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Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.
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Art
Moving
Want
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We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.
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Art
Smile
Empathy
People
Viewpoints
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Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
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Art
Civilization
Feelings
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At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.
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Dance
Emotional
Lying
Mean
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The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.
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Dance
Dancing
Husband
Wife
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White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds.
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Dance
Dancing
Religious
White
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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 of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.
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Art
Dance
Expression
Religious
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We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.
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Legacy
Outsiders
People
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For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.
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Dancer
Eagles
Prayer
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What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their “alienation” as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.
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Adventure
Glasses
Self
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