The Neighborhood Playhouse was a two-year course, but the second year was only for students who’d been invited back. My poor attendance to classes I considered unworthy of my time or delusional talent meant there would be no second year for me. I was humiliated and angry at myself for being so arrogant. My behavior toward my dance teacher, the one I had brought to tears, filled me with shame. I had much to learn from a woman who had danced with Martha Graham to original compositions by Aaron Copland, and I blew it. Years later, I came across a quote of Martha Graham to Agnes de Mille that is
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