Hijikata Tatsumi


"A dancer must be able to relate to, for example, a frozen bone that transcends gender. Getting to that point, however, demands exhaustive examination, and without it the work will lapse into a trendy pseudo-darkness. In part, such a failure is doubtless a result of the times in which we live, but it's also because people have superficial perceptions of their own particular landscapes....They create a desert around themselves, then complain there is no water. Why don't they try drinking from the wells within their own bodies? They should instead drop a ladder deep into their own bodies and climb down it. Let them pluck the darkness from within their own bodies and eat it..."

Amos Ferguson