We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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