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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."

"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."

"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."

"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."

"We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development."

"They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers."
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