It 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. DenisI see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
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 have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.
Ruth St. Denis