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01Undated

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote

02Undated

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote

03Undated

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote

04Undated

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote

05Undated

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote

06Undated

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

Shah Asad Rizvi / quote