To Make Up A Dance, I Still

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

To Make Up A Dance, I Still Need, As I Needed Then, A Pot Of Tea, Walking Space, Privacy And An Idea.

Great Artists Can Be Uncertain. Of Course They Are While Strugggling To Find Solutions. Tolstoi's Scripts Are Almost Indecipherable. Emily Dickinson Provided Four Or More Alternates For Every Word; Beethoven Wrestled With Endings To The Point Of Exhaustion; In Our Day Jerome Robbins And His Lack Of Decision Are A Byword In The Dance Profession. But All Of These Knew Very Well What They Did Not Want, And What They Did Not Want Was The Current Coin, The Well-worn Usage. What They Wanted Was Something Newly Experienced, And Therefore Unknown And Hard To Attain.

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.

My Heroines Are Part Of Me And My Heroes Are Part Of What I'd Like To Know.