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.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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