Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
Ruth St. DenisWe should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
Ruth St. DenisI want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
Ruth St. DenisI see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Ruth St. DenisDancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth
Ruth St. Denis