There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLEWe have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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