The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThe choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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