I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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