One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.
The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.
My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years