Misery is a communicable disease.
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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
Dancers are the messengers of the gods.
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.
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.
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.
You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
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