Dance Symbolism Quotes

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.