The Happy Hula of Kumu Hula Mapuana de Silva & Halau Mohala Ilima"Kumu" means "Source."
She is a source of hula to her dancers and to us. . .
"How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! ~Constanze
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Sweetpea Tyler
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~Martha Graham
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. ~Vicki Baum
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille
Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~Author Unknown
It is of course possible to dance a prayer. ~Glade Byron Addams
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips. ~Adabella Radici
One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ~Martha Graham, c.1953
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair... ~Susan Polis Shutz
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ~Havelock Ellis
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~Martha Graham
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. ~Martha Graham
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. ~Martha Graham
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~Mata Hari
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. ~D.H. Lawrence
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. ~Ruth St. Denis
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~John Wain
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~Hopi Indian Saying
Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected. ~Source Unknown
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James "
