But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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