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

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the ….

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; th….

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson ….

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 hummingb….

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play..

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer..

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth..

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open..

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming..

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..

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows….

Dance in the body you have..

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggl….

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 bec….

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently..

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 t….

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping..

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 o….

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves..

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….