At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it - Jamake Highwater
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it
- Jamake Highwater
In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies … - Jamake Highwater
In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies …
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply p… - Jamake Highwater
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply p…
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body we… - Jamake Highwater
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body we…
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by prim… - Jamake Highwater
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by prim…
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make… - Jamake Highwater
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make…
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspec… - Jamake Highwater
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspec…
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal ex… - Jamake Highwater
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal ex…
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like… - Jamake Highwater
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like…
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