The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of … - Jamake Highwater

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Jamake Highwater

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

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For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.

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Art is a staple of mankind. . . So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

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Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

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Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'. . . For Indians, everything is art. . . therefore needs no name.

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