Ruth St. Denis Quotes

Ruth St. Denis — American Dancer born on January 20, 1878, died on July 21, 1968

Ruth Saint Denis was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was the co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dance and the teacher of several notable performers... (wikipedia)

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

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.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

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.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

Ruth St. Denis Quotes

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