3 Quotes by Gerard van der Leeuw

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one’s own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God.

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously...

In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily.