touchstone quotations: Agnes De Mille on Dance

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

Agnes De Mille

Thanks to Janet Davis and all my fellow dancers (especially Donna, Judy, Shawna, and Emily) in the Flash Mob at the Westerville Area Chamber of Commerce 37th Annual Music and Arts Festival.

Source: quotegarden.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Agnes De Mille on Dance