Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquest...

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Never try to leap from a standstill.

I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.

It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.