Dancers Aren't Made Of Their Technique, But

If You Want To Understand A Nation, Look At Its Dances And Listen To Its Folk Songs - Don't Pay Any Attention To Its Politicians.

Ours Is An Upbeat, A Hurried, Hasty Beat. It Keeps Pressing Us To Go Farther, To Include Everything So That We Can Savor Everything, So That We Can Know Everything, So That We Will Miss Nothing. Partly It's Greed, But Mainly Its Curiosity. We Just Want To Experience It. And We Do.

Dancing Is Such A Despised And Dishonored Trade That If You Tell A Doctor Or A Laywer You Do Choreography He'll Look At You As If You Were A Hummingbird. Dancers Don't Get Invited To Visit People. It Is Assumed A Boy Dancer Will Run Off With The Spoons And A Girl With The Head Of The House.

There Is Something Fearfully Strengthening About Cutting Free Even If The Ties Bandage The Heart Itself.

Ballet Technique Never Becomes Easy, It Becomes Possible