Rajneesh Quotes

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

As long as I have my feet, I can dance; you know what I'm saying?

I explained it when I danced it.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

This dance is the joy of existence.

Every time I dance I have a high. I mean every time I danced, it was the whole world was the stage and I was in control of it and there was a form and a ritual and yet it was spontaneous and life didn't matter after that of before

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.