The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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