No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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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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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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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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