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.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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