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.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dance in the body you have.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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