great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEThe truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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