There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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