Oh, thank you, that is just wonderful. I have even more respect for him, having read this interview, than before. Macaulay's visceral excitement and aliveness to dance and theater inform almost every statement he makes. So much of this quality of being present to each performance has to do with bodily response, and I was struck by his lengthy discourse about that: his first epiphany about his own body in relation to the expansiveness of ballet has continued to unfold throughout his long career, in such a way that ballet literally lives and expresses itself in his bones.
There is an older thread on this forum in which the relationship between understanding through performance, v. understanding through witness, is discussed - and that theme is very poignantly explored in this Macaulay interview. He feels the dance in his body - it moves him - he remembers steps and sequences and dances them alone in his room after a performance (though he is not a trained dancer); he demonstrates steps to his friends, in his classes and lectures; he is physically alive to the performance and understands what drives it.
I have bookmarked this interview to read again and again, as it is so fresh and invigorating and reminds one of what it feels like to dance internally, even when the body is still. Thank you again for posting this link.