You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls .
Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones, Walker Art Center (1998). “Art performs life: Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Bill T. Jones”