I Did Not Choose To Be A

Dance Is Communication, And So The Great Challenge Is To Speak Clearly, Beautifully And With Inevitability.

The Gesture Is The Thing Truly Expressive Of The Individual - As We Think So Will We Act.

No Animal Ever Has An Ugly Body Until It Is Domesticated. It Is The Same With The Human Body.

Dancing Is A Very Living Art. It Is Essentially Of The Moment, Although A Very Old Art. A Dancer's Art Is Lived While He Is Dancing. Nothing Is Left Of His Art Except The Pictures And The Memories--when His Dancing Days Are Over.

A Dancer, More Than Any Other Human Being, Dies Two Deaths: The First, The Physical When The Powerfully Trained Body Will No Longer Respond As You Would Wish. After All, I Choreographed For Myself. I Never Choreographed What I Could Not Do. I Changed Steps In Medea And Other Ballets To Accommodate The Change. But I Knew. And It Haunted Me. I Only Wanted To Dance.