I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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