To Dance Is To Live. What I

For I Was Never Able To Understand, Then Or Later On, Why, If One Wanted To Do A Thing, One Should Not Do It. For I Have Never Waited To Do As I Wished. This Has Frequently Brought Me To Disaster And Calamity, But At Least I Have Had The The Satisfaction Of Getting My Own Way.

Man Must Speak, Then Sing, Then Dance. The Speaking Is The Brain, The Thinking Man. The Singing Is The Emotion. The Dancing Is The Dionysian Ecstasy Which Carries Away All.

Most Human Beings Today Waste Some 25 To 30 Years Of Their Lives Before They Break Through The Actual And Conventional Lies Which Surround Them.

The Dancer Of The Future Will Be One Whose Body & Soul Have Grown So Harmoniously Together That The Natural Language Of The Soul Will Have Become The Movement Of The Body.

I Had Learned To Have A Perfect Nausea For The Theatre: The Continual Repetition Of The Same Words And The Same Gestures, Night After Night, And The Caprices, The Way Of Looking At Life, And The Entire Rigmarole Disgusted Me.