
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
Emmy, st. 6.
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
Source: "The Great Summons" (trans. Arthur Waley), Lines 144–147
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body.”
New York Times interview (1985)
Context: To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body. And it's partly the language that we don't want to show.