If I Could Say It, I Would

The Dancer's Body Is Simply The Luminous Manifestation Of The Soul.

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.

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.'

The Only Dance Masters I Could Have Were Jean-jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman And Nietzsche.

I Was Born By The Sea, And I Have Noticed That All The Great Events Of My Life Have Taken Place By The Sea. My First Idea Of Movement, Of The Dance, Certainly Came From The Rhythm Of The Waves.