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The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

Gerard Van Der Leeuw / Philosopher
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The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

⇛ Gerard Van Der Leeuw (Philosopher)

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In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.

Gerard Van Der Leeuw Philosopher

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.

Gerard Van Der Leeuw Philosopher

The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.

Gerard Van Der Leeuw Philosopher

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity.

Gerard Van Der Leeuw Philosopher

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare Poet

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Graham Choreographer

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

George Balanchine Choreographer

The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

Carlo Blasis Ballet Choreographer

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

Rainn Wilson Actor

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Ninette De Valois Ballet Choreographer

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