There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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