To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. First we have to believe, and then we believe. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. Nothing is more revealing than movement. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. |