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.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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