I Don't Try To Tell The Dancers

The Body Says What Words Cannot.

One Can Always Lament, You Know — But To Laugh In The Face Of Life, That's Very Hard. And For Me The Great Tragedian Should Also Be A Great Comedian.

If I Can't Dance, I Don't Care If My Dances Are Ever Done Again!

A Dancer, More Than Any Other Human Being, Dies Two Deaths: The First, The Physical When The Powerfully Trained Body Will No Longer Respond As You Would Wish. After All, I Choreographed For Myself. I Never Choreographed What I Could Not Do. I Changed Steps In Medea And Other Ballets To Accommodate The Change. But I Knew. And It Haunted Me. I Only Wanted To Dance.

America Does Not Concern Itself Now With Impressionism. We Own No Involved Philosophy. The Psyche Of The Land Is To Be Found In Its Movement. It Is To Be Felt As A Dramatic Force Of Energy And Vitality. We Move; We Do Not Stand Still. We Have Not Yet Arrived At The Stock-taking Stage.