Martin Blank uses dancing as an analogy to describe glassblowing. Oral history interview with Martin Blank by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 31, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length 00:32

Martin Blank: And so it’s like good dancers, you know, you run up to a good dancer and you grab them and you spin ‘em and you just give a little twist in your hand and that person knows you want them to spin and spin out, and you give ‘em a little yank and they spin in and then, you know, so there’s a lot of these sort of practice dance moves that, that teams, you—good dancers can always go amongst each other and work with other dancers. It takes a while to really know your partner, but you could go have a really good romp with someone and do a great dance. And so it’s a lot like that with glassblowing.