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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.

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With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

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I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

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Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.

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I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

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In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: July 1st, 1941

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