My Childhood Years Were A Balance Of

I Don't Try To Tell The Dancers Exactly What A Dance Means Before They Do It.

...although, As The Latin Verb To Educate, Educate, Indicates, It Is Not A Question Of Putting Something In But Drawing It Out, If It Is There To Begin With...i Want All Of My Students And All Of My Dancers To Be Aware Of The Poignancy Of Life At That Moment. I Would Like To Feel That I Had, In Some Way, Given Them The Gift Of Themselves.

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.

We Look At The Dance To Impart The Sensation Of Living In An Affirmation Of Life, To Energize The Spectator Into Keener Awareness Of The Vigor, The Mystery, The Humor, The Variety, And The Wonder Of Life. This Is The Function Of The American Dance.

My Dancing Is Not An Attempt To Interpret Life In The Literary Sense. It Is An Affirmation Of Life Through Movement.