Gerard van der Leeuw Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.”
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“The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.”
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“Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously...”
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“The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.”
-- Gerard van der Leeuw
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