There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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