As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.
Interpretation
Ballet expresses emotions and narratives through physical movement rather than spoken words.
Wendy Whelan's quote emphasizes that in ballet, the physicality of the dancer conveys meaning and emotion more powerfully than words ever could. The body becomes the medium of expression, using movement quality to communicate thoughts and feelings that transcend verbal language.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire young dancers at a ballet workshop.
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.
Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
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