What is Dance?

When I think of the body I think of dance. My work is influenced form all sorts of areas, from the visual arts - a different kind of vocabulary from that of my body work. It's hard to define what this is that is particularly dance. But what I like to think of my dance is..is something very sacred. I suppose sacred is a good word for it, coming from a ritualistic kind of background, where dance was the function in my childhood... and then to translate that into meaning for the modern person in 20th century Australia you know, and how it gives me meaning. I know that in certain areas of dance its almost 'devotional' and this is the particular area that I'm interested in. This kind of dance that is linked to something deeper than my breath. Something very internal. So it is in some ways communication from another area to the external.
A spiritual area?
Yes... without, yes without being in the too wide a sense of it, it is spiritual, yes it is spiritual (laughs). In specifics I could go into a lot of different areas that interest me, the questions of dance... questions of life... and all this is philosophical as well. In some ways it is a spiritual connection you know, some quest for meaning (laughs). So its not very much different from any artist really whose driven personally to create. And my body is my medium (laughs).