Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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This 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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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