Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Dance in the body you have.

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.

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

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