"The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience."

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Source : Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

Doris Humphrey

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