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.
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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The 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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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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