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“(We look for dancers who) don’t live, breathe, think, eat and sleep dance, because then they don’t have anything to bring on the stage. You get a lot of technique and no soul and no passion. . . . We ask for their vulnerability, and we ask for their innermost thoughts. And we ask for their spirit, and we ask that they remember why they started dancing in the first place, because if you forget that, you forget it all.”

--Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in the Christian Science Monitor.