It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. (Jean-Georges Noverre)

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

Jean-Georges Noverre

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