Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEThey 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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