My Childhood Years Were A Balance Of

You Can Be Eastern Or Burmese Or What Have You, But The Function Of The Body And The Awareness Of The Body Results In Dance And You Become A Dancer, Not Just A Human Being.

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.

I Did Not Want To Be A Tree, A Flower Or A Wave. In A Dancer's Body, We As Audience Must See Ourselves, Not The Imitated Behavior Of Everyday Actions, Not The Phenomenon Of Nature, Not Exotic Creatures From Another Planet, But Something Of The Miracle That Is A Human Being.

Dancers Have More Bones Than Most People And On The Days When You Work Hard You Are Sure That You Have Somehow Accumulated More Bones Than You Started With.

I Believe That Dance Was The First Art. A Philosopher Has Said That Dance And Architecture Were The First Arts. I Believe That Dance Was First Because It's Gesture, It's Communication. That Doesn't Mean It's Telling A Story, But It Means It's Communicating A Feeling, A Sensation To People.