Ted Shawn

“Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.”

“I believe that dance communicates man’s deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.”

“The dance is the only art form in which the artist is the instrument.”

“Dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”

“I'm not a dancer. I'm a dance.”

“When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”

“Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.”

“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature.”

“Male dancing has been with us for as long as we have had men.”

“What I want is a school of the dance, a center of the dance, a Mecca for the dance.”