But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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