The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.