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A Good Education Is Usually Harmful To A Dancer. A Good Calf Is Better Than A Good Head.

I Learned Three Important Things In College-to Use A Library, To Memorize Quickly And Visually, To Drop Asleep At Any Time Given A Horizontal Surface And Fifteen Minutes. What I Could Not Learn Was To Think Creatively On Schedule.

To Dance Is To Be Out Of Yourself. Larger, More Beautiful, More Powerful. This Is Power, It Is Glory On Earth And It Is Yours For The Taking.

But Remember That Intent Is Everything. One Does Not Just Jump, One Lifts Into The Air, One Rises. In The Same Way The Lifted Leg Of An Arabesque Becomes A Wing, And Not A Mechanical Leverage Like A Raised Trap Door. This Is The Precise Difference Between Dancing And Acrobatics. The Dancer Tries To Express Something; The Acrobat Merely Pulls, Raises, Stretches And Grinds. The Acrobat Is Lost In A Web Of Muscles The Dancer Is All But Invisible In Projected Idea.

The Choreographic Process Is Exhausting. It Happens On One's Feet After Hours Of Work, And The Energy Required Is Roughly The Equivalent Of Writing A Novel And Winning A Tennis Match Simultaneously.