There is this stigma that dance is effeminate and this and that. But dance is not easy. But then the freedom started to come. All of a sudden you can do the splits and fly up in the air and spin around. You are dancing with beautiful people.
Dance is just a wonderful challenge.
The challenge has not diminished in the ensuing 25 years, but the travel has fallen off somewhat. When the 10-member Parsons Dance Company performs in Wichita on Saturday at Century II Concert Hall, Parsons himself will stay at home in New York. But Parsons' absence will not diminish the impact of his cutting-edge but easily accessible choreography, nor will it lessen the amount of jumping and leaping his dancers are required to do. Certainly among the most entertaining of the 60 ballets currently in his company's repertoire, these dances also demonstrate the simple, unpretentious inspiration for much of Parsons' work. Everyone on the planet sleeps every night and everyone has dreamt of flying.