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" The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. "

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" I see dance as glue for a community. "

" I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. "

" 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. "

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. "

" Kids should be encouraged to compete. "

" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

" In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. "

" I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. "

" I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. "

" 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. "

" 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. "

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

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

" It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' "

" Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive. "

" I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do. "

" 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. "

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

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

" 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. "

" I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. "

" I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities. "

" 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. "

" Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "