I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Ruth St. DenisI 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 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