Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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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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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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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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