Performance is the moment when the art of ballet has the opportunity to make connection with the outside world. […] The dimensions of communication from human to human conveyed through art is beyond what we would be capable of without it.  Our souls respond with depth to the messages borne through art.

So, let us not feel guilty for taking time away from work, taking time to diversify our experiences, time to gestate.  Our own spring seasons will be all the more abundant and inspired as a result

The value of improvisational skills cannot be overstated – in life and in performance!  In the end it can produce the most exciting, beautiful and interesting results.  Be not afraid, when a pirouette goes off-course – improvise!

The arts are a calling of sorts… perhaps not unlike the calling to be a priest or a nun…  It seems to be something some of us simply have to heed - despite all, we must answer the call.

Throughout the night, while he sleeps, his hands play nocturnes. Music spun from dreams, stretching from his fingers, light then shadow, moonbeams dancing in the branches of trees. […] Their undulations swim toward her and silver the dark, like those tiny bells the moon rings over ripples on a lake.

 From Nocturnes, by Charles Levendosky