What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their โalienationโ as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.
Jamake HighwaterAt 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.
Jamake HighwaterDance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.
Jamake HighwaterWe've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.
Jamake HighwaterThe 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 primal people.
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