Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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