Inspirational and Supporting Quotes

"I always feel bad for the parts of the stage that aren't being used. I have in the past felt sorry, for the celing and walls. It's perfectly good space, why doesn't anyone use it?" - Trisha Brown 

"The weight you release into the Earth comes back equal measure as support."

"Underneath all successful effortless movements are integreated reflexes, righting reactions, and equilibrium responses."- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

"Reflexes create the pathways that allow the mind to express itself in movement" -Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

"Reflexes are patterns that support our relationship to earth and heaven or gravity and anti-gravity."- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

"Aerial Dance forces dancers to be present in the moment; they connot lose focus or they might fall from a height. The stakes are higher, literally." Aerial Dance, Nancy Smith

"How one relates to the word 'hold.' We need to find other ways to 'hold' and not 'hold."- Stephanie Evanitsky

"Finding the lightness and depth from ground to sky"- Terry Sendgraff

"We unconsciously recognize the experience of being in the womb floating, hovering in fluid, smooth energy." - Robert Davidson

"Childhood instinct of play, reaching, grasping, pulling, hanging, climbing, swinging, balancing."- Susan Murphy

"Mind and Body will be more powerful and more muanced than by training in a singular way."- Amelia Rudolph

"There is an art, or rather a knack, to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground, and miss."- Douglas Adams