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.
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!
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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 practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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