Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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