I Want One Word On My Tombstone

I Want One Word On My Tombstone - Dancer.

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.

Then I Did The Simplest Thing In The World. I Leaned Down... And Kissed Him. And The World Cracked Open.

The Truest Expression Of A People Is In Its Dances And Its Music. Bodies Never Lie.

Living Is A Form Of Not Being Sure, Not Knowing What Next Or How. The Moment You Know How, You Begin To Die A Little. The Artist Never Entirely Knows. We Guess. We May Be Wrong, But We Take Leap After Leap In The Dark.