To Dance Is To Live. What I

No Composer Has Yet Caught This Rhythm Of America - It Is Too Mighty For The Ears Of Most.

It Is The Mission Of All Art To Express The Highest And Most Beautiful Ideals Of Man.

Before I Was Born My Mother Was In Great Agony Of Spirit And In A Tragic Situation. She Could Take No Food Except Iced Oysters And Champagne. If People Ask Me When I Began To Dance, I Reply 'in My Mother's Womb, Probably As A Result Of The Oysters And Champagne.'

I Intend To Work For This Dance Of The Future. I Do Not Know Whether I Have The Necessary Qualities; I May Have Neither Genius Nor Talent Nor Temperament. But I Know That I Have A Will; And Will And Energy Sometimes Prove Greater Than Either Genius Or Talent Or Temperament.

The Dance - It Is The Rhythm Of All That Dies In Order To Live Again; It Is The Eternal Rising Of The Sun.