“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
― Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
“In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.”
― The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows
― The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.”
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