Ballet Technique Never Becomes Easy, It Becomes

The Choreographic Process Is Exhausting. It Happens On One's Feet After Hours Of Work, And The Energy Required Is Roughly The Equivalent Of Writing A Novel And Winning A Tennis Match Simultaneously.

But Remember That Intent Is Everything. One Does Not Just Jump, One Lifts Into The Air, One Rises. In The Same Way The Lifted Leg Of An Arabesque Becomes A Wing, And Not A Mechanical Leverage Like A Raised Trap Door. This Is The Precise Difference Between Dancing And Acrobatics. The Dancer Tries To Express Something; The Acrobat Merely Pulls, Raises, Stretches And Grinds. The Acrobat Is Lost In A Web Of Muscles The Dancer Is All But Invisible In Projected Idea.

Modern Dancers Give A Sinister Portent About Our Times. The Dancers Don't Even Look At One Another. They Are Just A Lot Of Isolated Individuals Jiggling In A Kind Of Self-hypnosis And Dancing With Others Only To Remind Themselves That We Are Not Completely Alone In This World.

I Studied The Way I Danced- To The Point Of Dropping.

I Had Had To Learn The Difference Between The Bearable Fatigue And The Unbearable, The Fatigue Of Fear. The First Can Be Cured By A Night's Sleep; The Second Kills.