"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." - George Bernard Shaw, attributed

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. . . Bodies never lie." - AGNES DE MILLE, in New York Times Magazine

"[Dance] The poetry of the foot." - JOHN DRYDEN, The Rival Ladies

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body." - MARTHA GRAHAM, quoted in New York Times

"Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe."
- JOHN MILTON, L'Allegro

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made." - TED SHAWN, quoted in Time

"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
- W.B. YEATS, Among School Children