Katherine Dunham Quotes

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

When you're dancing and stuff like that, that's a way of life.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.

As far as I'm concerned, dance is a passion for me. I don't do homework and go to the sets. I believe in being impromptu. I just go on the sets and start doing whatever comes to my mind.

Dance keeps me going, and it gives me the energy to remain active in cinema.

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

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

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

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

I loved dance.

Dance is so joyous.

I am passionate about ballet.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'