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"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."

"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."

"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."

"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."


"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion."


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


"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."


"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."


"Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe."


"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."
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