{"id":126,"date":"2010-11-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/2010\/11\/dance-dance-dance.html"},"modified":"2010-11-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:00:00","slug":"dance-dance-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2010\/11\/dance-dance-dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Dance, Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This week&#8217;s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones.<br \/><\/i><br \/><b><br \/>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.<br \/>&#8211; Agnes De Mille<\/p>\n<p>I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.<br \/>&#8211; Ruth St. Denis<\/p>\n<p>Dance is the hidden language of the soul. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Martha Graham<\/p>\n<p>The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Mata Hari<\/p>\n<p>Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Martha Graham <\/p>\n<p>To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Hopi Saying<\/p>\n<p>Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.<br \/>&#8211; Lois Hurst<\/p>\n<p>Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Terri Guillemets<\/p>\n<p>Next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle. <br \/>&#8211; Martha Graham<\/p>\n<p>Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Martha Graham<\/p>\n<p>Next time you&#8217;re mad, try dancing out your anger. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Terri Guillemets<\/p>\n<p>Life isn&#8217;t about waiting for the storm to be over, it&#8217;s about learning how to dance in the rain. <br \/>&#8211; Author Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health &#8212; it rusts your spirit and your hips. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Terri Guillemets<\/p>\n<p>Dancing is the world&#8217;s favorite metaphor. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Kristy Nilsson <\/p>\n<p>Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. <br \/>&#8211; Sharon Olds<\/p>\n<p>The journey between who you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. <br \/>&#8211; Barbara De Angelis&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won&#8217;t be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Bette Midler <\/p>\n<p>If I can not dance, I shall die!<br \/>&#8211; Anna Pavlova<\/p>\n<p>Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.<br \/>&#8211; Angela Monet<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; Faith Whittlesey<\/b><\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>The Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to <a href=\"mailto:thequeenofmyself@aol.com\">thequeenofmyself@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s theme is Dancing Queens. And Crones.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.&#8211; Agnes De Mille I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-ritual","category-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dance, Dance, Dance - The Queen of My Self<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2010\/11\/dance-dance-dance.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dance, Dance, Dance - The Queen of My Self\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week&#8217;s theme is Dancing Queens. 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