'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.