“Unlike the actor’s, the dancer’s body inevitably resists being given away. The more fully a dancer throws themselves into dancing a part, the more they come across physically as completely themselves. It is a paradox, not just of dance, but of our own existence, that often when physical being is at full tilt, the human essence seems most visible. When a dancer is giving it all they’ve got, what we see is no illusion, even if they are performing a “role”: the animating spirit cannot be borrowed or faked, it is the dancer’s own.”