Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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The 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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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 constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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