I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Ruth St. DenisOur bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion.
Ruth St. DenisIt was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art.
Ruth St. DenisRight here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
Ruth St. Denis