I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.
Ruth St. Denisevery artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.
Ruth St. DenisI believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
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