In The End, It All Comes Down

I'm Asked So Often Whether I Believe In Life After Death. I Do Believe In The Sanctity Of Life, The Continuity Of Life And Of Energy. I Know The Anonymity Of Death Has No Appeal For Me. It Is The Now That I Must Face And Want To Face.

How Many Leaps Did Nijinksy Take Before He Made The One That Startled The World? He Took Thousands And Thousands And It Is That Legend That Gives Us The Courage, The Energy, And Arrogance To Go Back Into The Studio Knowing That While There Is So Little Time To Be Born To The Instant, You Will Work Again Among The Many That You May Once More Be Born As One. That Is A Dancer's World.

In The End, It All Comes Down To The Art Of Breathing.

...although, As The Latin Verb To Educate, Educate, Indicates, It Is Not A Question Of Putting Something In But Drawing It Out, If It Is There To Begin With...i Want All Of My Students And All Of My Dancers To Be Aware Of The Poignancy Of Life At That Moment. I Would Like To Feel That I Had, In Some Way, Given Them The Gift Of Themselves.

There Is A Vitality, A Life Force, A Quickening That Is Translated Through You Into Action, And Because There Is Only One Of You In All Time, This Expression Is Unique, And If You Block It, It Will Never Exist Through Any Other Medium, And Be Lost. The World Will Not Have It. It Is Not Your Business To Determine How Good It Is, Not How It Compares With Other Expression. It Is Your Business To Keep It Yours Clearly And Directly, To Keep The Channel Open.