In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Dance in the body you have.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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