Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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