I praise the dance, for it frees people from the heaviness of matter and binds the isolated to community. I praise the dance, which demands everything: health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul. Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people, who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling. Dancing demands a whole person, one who is firmly anchored in the center of his life, who is not obsessed by lust for people and things and the demon of isolation in his own ego. Dancing demands a freed person, one who vibrates with the equipoise of all his powers. I praise the dance. O man, learn to dance, or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do with you.
~ Saint Augustine
So…I think that pretty much sums it up! May Dance smile upon your feet today & each!!
I too am a praiser of dancing. I have danced all my life since I was two am now in my fifties. My freedom comes with my dancing. My joy overflows when I begin to move. My favorite thing to do is dance. I just found this website on Facebook and I had to click onto it. Good job! Keep it going.
From one dancer to another.
—Fran Owens
Thanks so much! It is really wonderful you feel free and joyful when you dance. As they say…Once a Dancer, Always a Dancer!
—Rebecca
I have been a dancer since i was in the third grade. I did demi-pointe and pointe ballet foe 10 long and amazing years. After i graduate high school i was devastated and afraid that i’d never find a ballet class/club in college. Then i stumbled upon a ballroom club, and as soon as i stepped into the dance room, i was home again. After a car accident in 07 i had to stop dancing to recover, then in 09 i found belly dance and my world is complete once more. To quote what i have listed on a website:
“I can’t NOT dance. It Is my life’s blood,
my heart, my soul, my being.
Without it I am a hollow vessel.
With it I shine from within”
—Kira
Beautiful words, Kira! Keep dancing & shining!!
—Rebecca