This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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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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