The Scandalous Silver Slipper

If it's too hot to do anything else, dance. You're sweating anyway, right? Byrne Miller always said sweating is the sign of doing it right, whether "it" was dance or sex. It's your body's testimony to the effort, the consciousness of movement. She was always conscious of how she moved, and how dance is the most sensual of acts possible to perform alone.

I became conscious of the latter when she invited me to take a master class from Martha Graham dancers. They were in Beaufort, South Carolina ...