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"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
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"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."
"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."
"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."
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"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
"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."
"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
"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."
"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 started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."
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