dance

when a dancer comes on stage, he is not only what the choreographer has written. he has with him all the decisions he has made in life. each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage you see the result of those choices. exceptional dancers know who they are and they show this to you, willingly. ~Mikhail Baryshnikov, quoted in Nyer aricle re solo-dancer-and-choreographers Sally Silvers and Teresa De Keersmaeker.