Quote from Wisdom Comes Dancing

Wisdom Comes Dancing: Selected Writings of Ruth St. Denis on Dance, Spirituality, and the Body

edited with an introduction by Kamae A. Miller 

PeaceWorks International, Seattle, Washington, 1997. 220 pp.

"I do not believe that to dance beautifully, or to be dedicated to the dance, will solve all our earthly problems or make us the dictators of health and wisdom. But as I believe that going upstream to the source of any one human activity leads us to our deeper selves, so do I believe that the dance holds within its vital elements the solution of many of our human problems, physical, emotional and spiritual.

My ideal of dance is that it should range itself alongside of the other arts in dignity and conception, in efficiency of technique and in service to the aims of a higher civilization.

To this end, our attitude towards the dance must change. We must cease to regard it as merely a conventionalized form of sex-expression, as the tired business person's amusement, or as an intellectual and geometrical problem unfolded to us at the concert hall.

Dance may be all of these, but it is something more than these. Dance is a symbol of Life -- rhythmic, glorious, immortal. It is a language and a hieroglyphic of divinity. Let us learn to speak it and to read it." (p. 18)


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