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• ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out,…
• I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the…
• The center of the stage is where I am.
• The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance…
• I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense…
• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.…
• In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
• Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand…
• You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.
• All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a…
• I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of…
• The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you…

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