To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

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

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.

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

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

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.