Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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 remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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