In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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 white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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