Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.
When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?
Dance, in general, has become more atavistic than artistic.
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.
