I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.
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I've come to realize that people dance for reasons of their own.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.
Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.
The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.
I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye.
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.
Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.
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