Holding on to the air: an autobiography
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“Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.”
“After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.”
“As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.”
“I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.”
“Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.”
“You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.”
“Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.”
Source: Holding on to the air: an autobiography
“In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.”
“The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.”
“I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.”
“I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements.”
“I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.”
“I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.”
“I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.”
“When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.”
“There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.”