It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.

To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

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

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.