Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable.

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

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.