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.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

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.