March 2011
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“Why am I a human being? I ask myself—what an extremely vague condition! ...”
– Lydia Davis, “Kafka Cooks Dinner”
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What is the texture and rhythm of a ballet dancer’s day?
It’s an extraordinary thing to be a ballet dancer. You cannot divorce yourself from the music. You get up in the morning, you warm up, you stretch, you do a little floor mat. And now ballet class starts and for the next hour or hour and a half, music is your floor, and you are interpreting that music by the way you move. No sooner do...
