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My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

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After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves.

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Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

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Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

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I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.

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Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

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When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

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I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action.

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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: July 1st, 1941

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