Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
Misery is a communicable disease.
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.
You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
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