“ Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. Sylvie Guillem Ballet Dancer
“ The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. Jean Paul Writer
“ Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience. Goa Gil Musician
“ You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. Howard Thurston Magician
“ Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature. William Prynne Author