Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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.
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