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.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.