I Did Not Choose To Be A

When You Start With An Idea, Or Something Hits You, Then You Have To Follow That Through To The End, And It's The Following Through To The End That Makes The Pattern. That, For Me, Is Choreography.

A Dancer, More Than Any Other Human Being, Dies Two Deaths: The First, The Physical When The Powerfully Trained Body Will No Longer Respond As You Would Wish. After All, I Choreographed For Myself. I Never Choreographed What I Could Not Do. I Changed Steps In Medea And Other Ballets To Accommodate The Change. But I Knew. And It Haunted Me. I Only Wanted To Dance.

I Believe That We Learn By Practice... It Is The Performance Of A Dedicated Precise Set Of Acts, Physical Or Intellectual, From Which Come Shape Of Achievement, A Sense Of One's Being, A Satisfaction Of Spirit.

My Dancing Is Not An Attempt To Interpret Life In The Literary Sense. It Is An Affirmation Of Life Through Movement.

Some Men Have Thousands Of Reasons Why They Cannot Do What They Want To, When All They Need Is One Reason Why They Can.