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.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Destiny is made known silently.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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