No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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