I 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. DenisThe real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
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. DenisI see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Ruth St. Denis