Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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