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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
Explore more quotes by Ruth St. Denis


"The 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."


"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."


"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love."
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