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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

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Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

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Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it.

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I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

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I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

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It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.

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The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

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No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.

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If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: July 1st, 1941

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