Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

The hardest step in learning flamenco dance is the first one the student takes into the studio.

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.