I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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