Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.
Interpretation
Dance will always persist as a form of expression, regardless of circumstances.
Judith Jamison highlights the enduring nature of dance as a powerful form of human expression that transcends challenges and barriers. Dance, with its innate ability to convey emotions and tell stories, will always adapt and thrive, serving as a vital outlet for creativity and connection.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity and resilience.
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.
You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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