The Gesture Is The Thing Truly Expressive

A Dancer Must Listen To His Body And Pay Homage To It. Behind The Movement Lies This Terrible, Driving Passion, This Necessity. I Won't Settle For Anything Less.

It Takes About Ten Years To Make A Mature Dancer. The Training Is Twofold. There Is The Study And Practice Of The Craft In Order To Strengthen The Muscular Structure Of The Body. The Body Is Shaped, Disciplined, Honored, And In Time, Trusted. The Movement Become Clean, Precise, Eloquent, Truthful. Movement Never Lies. It Is A Barometer Telling The State Of The Soul's Weather To All Who Can Read It. This Might Be Called The Law Of The Dancer's Life, The Law Which Governs Its Outer Aspects

I Use The Words Gods And Goddesses Principally, I Think, To Mean Beautiful Bodies - Bodies That Are Absolute Instruments. And I Believe In Discipline, I Believe In A Very Definite Technique.

Every Dance Is A Kind Of Fever Chart, A Graph Of The Heart.

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.