To Make Up A Dance, I Still

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.

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

Dancing Is Such A Despised And Dishonored Trade That If You Tell A Doctor Or A Laywer You Do Choreography He'll Look At You As If You Were A Hummingbird. Dancers Don't Get Invited To Visit People. It Is Assumed A Boy Dancer Will Run Off With The Spoons And A Girl With The Head Of The House.

If You Want To Understand A Nation, Look At Its Dances And Listen To Its Folk Songs - Don't Pay Any Attention To Its Politicians.

When I Dance I Am Really Meditating Rather Then Performing For An Audience. I Am Completely Absorbed By The Music And The Steps I Choose To Respond To The Music.