Ruth St. Denis

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

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.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

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.

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

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.