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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.

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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Dance in the body you have.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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