If this can happen then the goal of the art is realized in you and there already, is one step towards Gibran s unknown known. The inculcation of an art form makes one more receptive, sensitive. When dancing, the artiste more than often becomes the heroine. The awareness of such beauty and the practice of enacting it, makes one more responsive altogether to beauty when met within in any form. An artiste would be more capable at perceiving and appreciating the graceful flow in a painting, the finesse in a sculpture, the lyrical beauty of a verse, than a layman would.
Dancing is the veritable manifestation of grace.
Grace that infuses itself in dance, follows otherwise too. Life itself gradually becomes a picture in grace. Dance in itself is a lesson in confidence. The basic posture is one that is upright and straight, exuding confidence. When initiated in childhood itself, the child grows up, imbibing this stance and bearing of faith in oneself.