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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of th

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. – Martha Graham

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How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance! – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. – David Byrne

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Nothing is more revealing than movement. – Martha Graham

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