It would seem as if it were a very difficult thing to explain in words, but when I stood before my class of even the smallest and poorest children and said:  'Listen to the music with your soul.  Now, while listening, do you not feel an inner self awakening deep within you -- that it is by its strength that your head is lifted, that your arms are raised, that you are walking slowly toward the light?' they understood.  This awakening is the first step in the dance, as I conceive it.

-- Isadora Duncan