The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEThis 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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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