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

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" It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. "

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" My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. "

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" I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. "

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

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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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" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

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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. "