Martin Blank describes how glassblowing is like a dance. Oral history interview with Martin Blank by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 31, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length 00:20

Martin Blank: And it is very much a dance. And it’s also—I call glassblowing—it’s sort of a cross between being a concert pianist, because you have to have a lot of dexterity, you have to have a lot of motor memory, but then you have to put your emotion into it. And then you have to have the physicality of being, like, a soccer star.