I Still Find It Almost Impossible To

My Mother Had Gotten A Job As A Receptionist At A Dancing School And Had The Idea That We Should Open Our Own Dancing School; We Did, And It Prospered.

At The Time The Quickest Way To Establish Yourself As An American Was To Throw A Little Bit Of Tap Into Your Dance - Even When It Wasn't Called For. But What Also Helped Me Was The Fact That I Was Dancing In Roles That I Had Played.

I Saw Mikhail Baryshnikov Do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite On Pbs. I Have No Numbers To Prove It, But I Bet That Kids Who Saw That Loved It. I Think You Will See Younger Dancers, Who Certainly Have The Artistic Sense And Capabilities, Start Going Back To Romantic Numbers.

In The 1930s There Was This Tendency In Hollywood To Portray Everyone As Rich. Even If They Were Doing A Poor Man's Dance, They Were All So Nicely Clothed, Gowned, Coiffured. That's Why I Decided To Wear White Socks, Loafers, T-shirts, And Blue Jeans. I Had A Sociopolitical Context In Front Of Me: I Was A Child Of The Depression Who Danced In A Way That Would Represent The Common Man.

I May Be Rancid Butter, But I'm On Your Side Of The Bread.