‘Though here at journey's end I lie, in darkness buried deep,
beyond all towers strong and high, beyond all mountains steep,
above all shadows rides the Sun, and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.’ - J.R.R. Tolkien
****NEW PIECE, even though short****
 
 
 
 

The dance world is too small in lots of ways – it's too intense, it rattles around itself.
-Siobhan Davies-
***THE SECOND PART OF THIS CHAPTER IS MODIFIED, THE THIRD IS TOTALLY NEW***
 

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. -Shana Alexander-

"Our siblings. They resemble just enough to make all the differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long." Susan Merrell
"We are not only our brother's keeper. In countless large and small ways, We are our brother's maker." -Bonaro Overstreet

To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed. – City of Bones
“Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.” Mahatma Gandhi 

- I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart.  I am.  I am.  I am. ~ Sylvia Plath

- A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ~ James Thurber
 

"Destiny is real and she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked - stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know - and there you are: A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing" C. JoyBell