A Good Education Is Usually Harmful To

Ballet Technique Never Becomes Easy, It Becomes Possible

Modern Dancers Give A Sinister Portent About Our Times.

One Of The Good Things About My Having Some Recognition Is That I Can Do Something For The People I Think Ought To Have More And Correct Some Of The Matters Fate Fails To Take Care Of.

Great Artists Can Be Uncertain. Of Course They Are While Strugggling To Find Solutions. Tolstoi's Scripts Are Almost Indecipherable. Emily Dickinson Provided Four Or More Alternates For Every Word; Beethoven Wrestled With Endings To The Point Of Exhaustion; In Our Day Jerome Robbins And His Lack Of Decision Are A Byword In The Dance Profession. But All Of These Knew Very Well What They Did Not Want, And What They Did Not Want Was The Current Coin, The Well-worn Usage. What They Wanted Was Something Newly Experienced, And Therefore Unknown And Hard To Attain.

Who Am I?, The Artist Asks. And He Devotes His Whole Life To Finding Out.