Art. Michael Seif, "Figures in water" collection
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These fragile bodies of touch and taste / This vibrant skin, this hair like lace / Spirits open to the thrust of grace / Never a breath you can afford to waste
Bruce Cockburn, lyrics from “Lovers in a Dangerous Time,” Stealing Fire LP (True North, 1984)
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The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.
- Isadora Duncan
