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"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."
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"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."
"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."
"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't."
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."
"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."
"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
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