Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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