Lincoln Kirstein

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Dance design is not simply one element it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera words to poetry color to painting so sequence in steps their syntax idiom vocabulary are the stuff of stage dancing.

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.