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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.
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By AnonymRuth 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.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.
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By AnonymRuth 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.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
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By AnonymRuth 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.
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By AnonymRuth 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.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
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By AnonymRuth St. Denis
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.
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