Cloudless

But the final synthesis can be a natural result, natural in the sense that the mind, body and spirit function as one. The technical aim is not to do a few or many things spectacularly, but to do whatever is done, well. Not to show off, but to show; not to exhibit, but to transmit the qualities of the human spirit through the disciplined action of the human body.

One does not have to have studied in order to dance. It is given to all of us. But for the professional dancer, an awareness of the physical mechanism is useful to maintain that amplification of energy that gives to the dance the quality that makes it, at its best, a moving image of life.
-Merce Cunningham