I Did Not Choose To

I Believe That We Learn By Practice. Whether It Means To Learn To Dance By Practicing Dancing Or To Learn To Live By Practicing Living, The Principles Are The Same. In Each, It Is The Performance Of A Dedicated Precise Set Of Acts, Physical Or Intellectual, From Which Comes Shape Of Achievement, A Sense Of One's Being, A Satisfaction Of Spirit. One Becomes, In Some Area, An Athlete Of God. Practice Means To Perform, Over And Over Again In The Face Of All Obstacles, Some Act Of Vision, Of Faith, Of Desire. Practice Is A Means Of Inviting The Perfection Desired.

No Animal Ever Has An Ugly Body Until It Is Domesticated. It Is The Same With The Human Body.

What People In The World Think Of You Is Really None Of Your Business.

How Many Leaps Did Nijinksy Take Before He Made The One That Startled The World? He Took Thousands And Thousands And It Is That Legend That Gives Us The Courage, The Energy, And Arrogance To Go Back Into The Studio Knowing That While There Is So Little Time To Be Born To The Instant, You Will Work Again Among The Many That You May Once More Be Born As One. That Is A Dancer's World.

I Feel That The Essence Of Dance Is The Expression Of Man--the Landscape Of His Soul. I Hope That Every Dance I Do Reveals Something Of Myself Or Some Wonderful Thing A Human Can Be.