Find The Passion. It Takes Great Passion

Great Artists Can Be Uncertain. Of Course They Are While Strugggling To Find Solutions. Tolstoi's Scripts Are Almost Indecipherable. Emily Dickinson Provided Four Or More Alternates For Every Word; Beethoven Wrestled With Endings To The Point Of Exhaustion; In Our Day Jerome Robbins And His Lack Of Decision Are A Byword In The Dance Profession. But All Of These Knew Very Well What They Did Not Want, And What They Did Not Want Was The Current Coin, The Well-worn Usage. What They Wanted Was Something Newly Experienced, And Therefore Unknown And Hard To Attain.

What Have We Got Here In America That We Believe We Cannot Live Without? We Have The Most Varied And Imaginative Bathrooms In The World, We Have Kitchens With The Most Gimmicks, We Have Houses With Every Possible Electrical Gadget To Save Ourselves All Kinds Of Trouble - All So That We Can Have Leisure. Leisure, Leisure, Leisure! So That We Don't Go Mad In The Leisure, We Have Color Tv. So That There Will Never, Never, Be A Moment Of Silence, We Have Radio And Muzak. We Can't Stand Silence, Because Silence Includes Thinking. And If We Thought, We Would Have To Face Ourselves.

Find The Passion. It Takes Great Passion And Great Energy To Do Anything Creative. I Would Go So Far As To Say You Can't Do It Without That Passion.

Dance In The Body You Have.

The Choreographic Process Is Exhausting. It Happens On One's Feet After Hours Of Work, And The Energy Required Is Roughly The Equivalent Of Writing A Novel And Winning A Tennis Match Simultaneously.