When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
From Suzanne Farrell
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
I was very much of a tomboy.
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
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