Anna Halprin quotes
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“Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.”
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“Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art for my life. I’ve always said dance is the breath made visible. That covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.”
-- Anna HalprinSource : "You’re Never Too Old to Express Yourself" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.
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“Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature, and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance, we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives. When brought forth from the inside and forged by the desire to create personal change, dance has the profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.”
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“Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.”
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“As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.”
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“I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.”
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“The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.”
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“I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me...has been the rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.”
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“Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.”
Source : 'Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill's' (1663)
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Source : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns
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