There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance in the body you have.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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