My Childhood Years Were A Balance Of

I Believe That We Learn By Practice... It Is The Performance Of A Dedicated Precise Set Of Acts, Physical Or Intellectual, From Which Come Shape Of Achievement, A Sense Of One's Being, A Satisfaction Of Spirit.

Dance Is The Landscape Of Man's Soul.

Practice Is A Means Of Inviting The Perfection Desired.

How Many Leaps Did Nijinksy Take Before He Made The One That Startled The World? He Took Thousands And Thousands And It Is That Legend That Gives Us The Courage, The Energy, And Arrogance To Go Back Into The Studio Knowing That While There Is So Little Time To Be Born To The Instant, You Will Work Again Among The Many That You May Once More Be Born As One. That Is A Dancer's World.

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.