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Intertwining moves, caressing ever so lyrically—adagio-ing with God—a romance with my creator.
Natalie Willes
I dance because I must. I cannot be stilled.
Natalie Willes
My dance is a soulful articulation of unspoken truths.
Julie Adams
How I’d execute moves and steps—attack them, embrace them, or shy away from them—always had a direct correlation to what was going on in my mind, my heart, and in my life at that time.
Stephanie Guiland
Donald Byrd’s/The Group
The doctors said I needed a hip replacement. My career of more than two decades was over. I cried for a month and hid in my apartment, drinking heavily. Without dance I didn’t want to live. What other skills did I have? I went from being the lucky dancer who was always working to someone who had no income.
Michael Blake
Donald Byrd’s/The Group
My agenda is to see how far I can push the body. I don’t mean just the physical body. I mean the mind too.
Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd’s/The Group
You can’t discover new things about your soul unless you take risks—go out on a limb. The challenge to go out there becomes a challenge to the self. It’s how you show your mettle as a person.
David Parsons
Parsons Dance Company
There is no manual, no road map to a successful dance career. You have to write your own.
Daniel Ezralow
Every human emotion can be conveyed and shown through dance—expressly romance, passion, and joy.
Parissa with Desmond James
Movement and action are the only things that really communicate. I can use words, but if I don’t include my body to support the words, then the words might not be believed.
Rennie Harris
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Bonnie Oda HomseyJohn Pennington
American Repertory Dance Company
I am, and will always be a dancer. Every cell in my body is primed to be so.
Nancy Colahan
What empower me on stage are the combustion of instinct, physicality, imagination, and the risk of being vulnerable.
Bonnie Oda Homsey
Dance is how you express what you know about your own spirituality.
John Pennington
Know your own power and use it to reveal to the audience what you want them to know about you.
Janet Eilber
Martha Graham Dance Company
What has always driven me is the search for a new step.
Gregory Hines
