To Make Up A Dance, I Still

Then I Did The Simplest Thing In The World. I Leaned Down... And Kissed Him. And The World Cracked Open.

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.

We Can't Stand Silence, Because Silence Induces Thinking. And If We Thought, We Would Have To Face Ourselves.

No White Man Uses His Feet The Way An Indian Does. He Talks To The Earth.

Theater People Are Always Pining And Agonizing Because They're Afraid That They'll Be Forgotten. And In America They're Quite Right. They Will Be.