I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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