Lincoln Kirstein Inspirational Quotes (5)

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

Dance design is not simply one element it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.