I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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We 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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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