The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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There 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. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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