It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.
It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.