Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite righ...t. They will be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness ...of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in it...s movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The disaster ... is not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts ar...e dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »