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.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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