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.

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

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

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.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.