Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEIn 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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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