Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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