Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
Interpretation
Embrace your individuality to stand out in your craft.
Suzanne Farrell emphasizes the importance of authenticity in dance. She asserts that true distinction arises not from technical proficiency alone, but from the ability to express one's unique spirit. By revealing your individuality, you can cultivate a personal style that sets you apart from others.
In practice
During a dance class to inspire students to express themselves.
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.
I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.
But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
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