"We're going to do it, baby! We're going to do it, darling!' And within a week later we were doing it."

"In Spoleto Ellen established an immediate relationship with the territory and here we celebrate the idea of community…"

"Her vision dreams of a world where a multiplicity of perspectives is essential and where art is a means to bring peop…"

"I can’t imagine La MaMa without her. There may be a place called La MaMa that somebody brings good avant-garde intern…"

"Qui celebriamo l'idea di comunità e famiglia artistica… che riunisce diverse generazioni che si incontrano… A Spoleto…"

"If a script ‘beeps’ to me, I do it...Audiences may hate these plays, but I believe in them. The only way I can explai…"

"Believe it or not, it’s easier for me nowadays to be outside this country than in this country, because when I go out…"

"Eighty percent of what is now considered the American theater originated at La MaMa."

"I envy my foreign counterparts—Bournonville of Copenhagen, Fokine and Petipa of Moscow, Balanchine of New York, Ashto…"

"[Tinikling] does become a contest between the dancer and the clapper."