The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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