Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLE
AGNES DE MILLE
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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 MilleAgnes de Mille If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
Bill NyeBill Nye I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn’t flow, and it’s very tense.
Blanca LiBlanca Li So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That’s very uncreative. They don’t discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
Benjamin HarkarvyBenjamin Harkarvy If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
Ben OkriBen Okri EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST
Ben BrantleyBen Brantley On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
Barbara CookBarbara Cook You can’t help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
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