“Dance exercises over dancers an insidious attraction. It makes them work hours daily on perfecting  an instrument which is really deteriorating from birth. To what end, this eternal daily struggle? Because inside of all that is an ecstasy. Brief, perhaps, not always released. But this can happen at any moment. And when it does for a dancer, he can smile without knowing it. There is no guarantee of this, but it does exist. We see it, and we know it.”