Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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